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Trading Week Wrap Up! - 04/24/26

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Good afternoon everybody, welcome to the TraderMerlin Show for your Trading Week Wrap Up, your Friday edition. Cheers everybody, maybe this nice glass of whiskey will chase away this whatever I've got. I'll try to keep my energy up and my sinuses cleared for you, but cheers everyone. This is, I forget which one this is, but no worry Dan, you can't talk. Oh that's right, you got your, how'd your surgery go? Hope it went okay. Don't type Dan, don't type. Hope your surgery went well. It was good seeing you this morning.

So we'll do a little bit of a Trader's Week Wrap Up and then go into some questions. I have two, not changes, but two new positions, basically rehashing old ones that I was in before, getting back into those. So I will start off with breaking down, let's see, where is it? I'll break down those positions for you, why am I not seeing my position? There we go. So these are the two, I'll start with this and then we'll go back to today's markets and then some of the big stories just so I can get this out of the way.

So these are the two, only the two current positions. I'm keeping it kind of light lately just because we're without those all-time highs. Again, all-time intraday high, all-time closing high for the S&P 500. So stay in that bullish side and selling puts along the way. So today I want to bring up that SMR. You guys know that my SMR was taken away last Friday, which is great because I was taken away at 12 bucks.

My average price was 10, I don't know, 10 something. So that was a great trade. I had 5,000 shares of that one. And this one, I just kind of repeated the position, but I sold the $11 strikes. So basically buying it back a dollar cheaper than what I had before, which would be a $5,000 saving. I have a 50 lot of this one as well, so I got 50 contracts of that. But yeah, it's worked out okay for me. I'm still being a little bit careful with this one, Wolf, but we'll see how it goes.

Again, I do think long-term we'll start to hear more commentary from our elected officials about the energy, not necessarily crisis, but just the need to look into our infrastructure. And it seems like every administration, and correct me if I'm wrong, I mean, I'm sure there are probably some errors in my statement, but it seems like every administration has something to hang their hat on. We had the CHIPS Act, we had the infrastructure bill,

and it's like this big campaign that you use to rally up your constituents and get people behind your party, and that's the big cause. Energy can be a pretty big cause here. And as we go towards these midterm elections, it seems like you really need to have something to stand on the box and start screaming for because the war isn't going that well. So yeah, I'm still sticking with SMR. I'm with you as well, Wolf. It doesn't look that great. The chart looks bad. There's other companies out there,

but it's working for me for right now, so I'l...

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