Week in Review 8/11/2025-8/15/2025
This week brought a mix of results across our strategies. Our Outlook strategies finished in the green, while we saw slight pullbacks in some of our other approaches. It’s important to remember that the Aggressive and Late Day Trader strategies are designed as higher-risk, higher-reward methods, which naturally means they can experience larger swings in performance from week to week.
A down week is nothing unusual and should never be a cause for concern. It’s simply part of the reality of day trading. Just as there are strong up days and weeks, there will also be periods where the market doesn’t align perfectly with our setups. What matters most is the long-term picture. Our results over time speak for themselves: by remaining disciplined and consistent with our time-tested, proven approach, we continue to find success despite the inevitable short-term fluctuations.
As we close out this week, we’re already looking ahead. Next week is a clean slate, and we’re prepared to take advantage of the opportunities the market presents. We’re looking forward to another great week ahead with our SPX and SPY 0DTE option trading strategies. Below are our daily trade comments and insights from this past week.
8/11/2025
Daily Outlook
We forecast a down day in the market and entered our positions at 9:35 a.m. We were focused on the daily target level in the SPY as our stop level. As the market started to rally it broke that level and as it did, we exited our positions just before 9:40 a.m. for -21% in SPX and -16% in SPY. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Aggressive Trader
We forecast a down day in the market and entered our positions at 9:35 a.m. We exited our positions at 10:10 a.m. for -48% in SPX -45% in SPY. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Spread Trader
We held our SPX Spread Trader position to the close for +41% ROM. Another profitable day and we look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Late Day Trader
At 1:40 p.m. we entered a put option trade. It briefly went in our direction, and then started trading sideways. We were giving it room to move, but as time went on the inability of the market to head lower here was concerning, so we were watching it closely. As the market started to rally, we exited our position just after 2:30 p.m. for -49%. We just weren’t willing to risk any further here. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
8/12/2025
Daily Outlook
We forecast an up day in the market and entered our positions before 9:35 a.m. The market quickly ran in our forecast direction and as we hit over 75% in our option positions we were using about a 25% trailing stop. The market started to pull back and as it did, we exited our positions just after 9:40 a.m. for +44% in SPX and +50% in SPY. Another profitable day and we look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Aggressive Trader
We forecast an up day in the market and entered our positions before 9:35 a.m. We exited our positions just before 9:45 a.m. for +21% in SPX +32% in SPY. Another profitable day and we look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Spread Trader
We exited our SPX Spread Trade early for a return of -2% ROM. A flat day and we look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Late Day Trader
Just after 1:45 p.m. we entered a call option trade. As it hit nearly 50% we were watching the 6441 level in the SPX as our stop level. As it started to pull back and hit that level we exited our position at 2:10 p.m. for +22%. We just weren’t willing to risk any further here. Another profitable day and we look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
8/13/2025
Daily Outlook
We forecast an up day in the market and entered our positions before 9:35 a.m. The market quickly ran in our forecast direction and as we hit over +100% in our option positions we were using about a 20% trailing stop. The market started to pull back and as it did, we exited our positions just after 9:50 a.m. for +73% in SPX and +85% in SPY. Another profitable day and we look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Aggressive Trader
We forecast an up day in the market and entered our positions before 9:35 a.m. We exited our positions at 9:55 a.m. for +46% in SPX +50% in SPY. Another profitable day and we look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Spread Trader
We exited our SPX Spread Trade early for a return -2% ROM. A flat day and we look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Late Day Trader
Just before 3 p.m. we entered a call option trade. The market turned very quickly and started to pull back. We gave it some room to move but choose to exit our position just after 3:05 p.m. for -50%. We just weren’t willing to risk any further here. The market did rally after we exited, but the extremely fast reversal after entry was cause for concern for us. For those willing to risk more today, greater profit was possible. But for us, it just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what next tomorrow will bring!
8/14/2025
Daily Outlook
We forecast a down day in the market and entered our positions before 9:35 a.m. The market quickly ran in the opposite direction, and we exited our positions just after 9:50 a.m. for -45% in SPX and -45% in SPY. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Aggressive Trader
We forecast a down day in the market and entered our positions before 9:35 a.m. We exited our positions at 9:50 a.m. for -50% in SPX -50% in SPY. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Spread Trader
We held our SPX Spread Trader position to the close for -54% ROM. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Late Day Trader
Just before 2:15 p.m. we entered a Put option trade. The market went in our direction, and we hit nearly +40% in our option position, but then it stalled and started to reverse on us. We gave it some room to move but chose to exit our position at 2:40 p.m. for -30%. We just weren’t willing to risk any further here. We took the small drawdown and look forward to what tomorrow will bring!
8/15/2025
Daily Outlook
We forecast an up day in the market and entered our positions just after 9:35 a.m. The market started to go against us and we were focused on the 644.75 level in SPY as our stop level. As it hit that level we exited our positions at 9:45 a.m. for -29% in SPX and -30% in SPY. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what next week will bring!
Aggressive Trader
We forecast an up day in the market and entered our positions just after 9:35 a.m. We exited our positions just before 9:50 a.m. for -56% in SPX -55% in SPY. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what next week will bring!
Spread Trader
We held our SPX Spread Trader position to the close for -50% ROM. Just didn’t go our way, so we shake it off and look forward to what next week will bring!
Late Day Trader
Just before 1:10 p.m. we entered a call option trade. The market quickly started to pull back, which was concerning to us. So, as it started to drop, we chose to exit our position just before 1:20 p.m. for -40%. We just weren’t willing to risk any further here. We shake it off and look forward to what next week will bring!