{"id":16029,"date":"2020-04-13T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/?p=16029"},"modified":"2020-04-13T07:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:30:01","slug":"the-easter-bunny-holds-a-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/the-easter-bunny-holds-a-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easter Bunny Holds a Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Easter bunny agreed to take questions during a press conference last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He stood at the podium, looking out into a room of reporters &ndash; each sitting exactly six feet apart from each other. The Treasury Secretary stood to the right of the Easter bunny &ndash; exactly six feet away. Vice President Pence stood exactly six feet to the left.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fauci was offstage, holding a tape measure.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Chairman Bunny,&rdquo; a reporter began his question, &ldquo;as the new head of the Federal Reserve Board, how will you help Americans in these trying times?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As you know,&rdquo; the Easter bunny replied, &ldquo;we already have plans in place to distribute chocolate eggs to every American earning less than $100,000. It&rsquo;s not their fault we had to shut down the economy. And those chocolate eggs will do a lot to relieve the pain and suffering that goes along with being unemployed for six weeks, six months, or however long it takes. After all, we&rsquo;re all in this together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Mnuchin leaned over to whisper something in the Easter bunny&rsquo;s ear. And Dr. Fauci rushed the stage with a can of Lysol.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dammit Steve,&rdquo; Dr. Fauci cried as he sprayed Mr. Mnuchin and the Easter bunny, &ldquo;I said six feet. SIX FEET!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As the Lysol droplets fell to the floor, and the Treasury Secretary practiced the proper amount of social distancing, Dr. Fauci began to exit the stage. He turned for a moment to glance in the direction of the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t even think about it, Mike,&rdquo; the good doctor said as he raised the can of Lysol.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President nodded his head in submission.<\/p>\n<p>The Easter bunny started talking again, &ldquo;As the Treasury Secretary just reminded me, the Federal Reserve has also agreed to buy distressed debt, like junk bonds and troubled loans, from hedge fund billionaires. It&rsquo;s not their fault they speculated on risky, low-grade debt in companies that even struggled during good economic times, and will almost certainly be destroyed during bad times. We&rsquo;ll spend about $2.3 trillion on this. After all, we&rsquo;re all in this together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve also instructed my staff,&rdquo; the Easter bunny continued, &ldquo;to look over internet auction sites like Craigslist and eBay, and to buy up any mint-condition rookie baseball cards, collectible Netherlands postage stamps, and Lladr&oacute; ceramic figurines. It&rsquo;s no one&rsquo;s fault we can&rsquo;t hold garage sales anymore. Right guys?&rdquo; The Easter bunny glanced to his right and then to his left.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; Messrs Mnuchin and Pence said in unison. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re all in this together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are there any plans,&rdquo; a reporter in the back of the room jumped up to ask, &ldquo;to follow the Bank of Japan&rsquo;s model and expand the Fed&rsquo;s balance sheet by buying corporate equities?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; the Fed Chairman insisted. &ldquo;That would be crazy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But, then again,&rdquo; the Easter bunny contemplated, &ldquo;you might re-ask that question a few months from now when Santa Claus takes over my position.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Best regards and good trading,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casey-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/misc\/jeff-clark-signature.png\" width=\"200\" style=\"max-width:200px; width:100%;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Clark<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. <\/strong>My first Crash Course training session is going live just an hour from now, at 8:30 ET.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 10 sessions, I&rsquo;ll show my subscribers what I&rsquo;m looking at before the market opens for trading, and what specific trading ideas I have on my radar. And I&rsquo;ll be fielding questions live from the audience at the end of each session.<\/p>\n<p>Now, members of my Alliance tier will be able to access all 10 sessions. But I&#8217;ve made a special exception, so all my paid readers can join for the first three.<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re not yet a subscriber and want to access this course, <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.jeffclarktrader.com\/?cid=MKT429393&amp;eid=MKT458855&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC067808\">a subscription to <em>Jeff Clark Trader<\/em><\/a> is the easiest way to get involved. It&rsquo;s just $19 per year. And, in addition to accessing my first three Crash Course sessions, you&rsquo;ll enjoy monthly options trade recommendations and a library of resources to get you started with trading options. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.jeffclarktrader.com\/?cid=MKT429393&amp;eid=MKT458855&amp;step=start&amp;plcid=PLC067808\">Click right here to learn more about a <em>Jeff Clark Trader<\/em> membership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can&rsquo;t wait to get started. And, I hope you&rsquo;re able to join me.<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><strong>Reader Mailbag<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Today in the mailbag, we hear from several <em>Jeff Clark Trader<\/em> members about their gains from a recent recommendation Jeff made&hellip;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left: 4px solid #ccc; margin: 0px 30px 0px 10px;padding-left: 15px;\">\n<p>Jeff, I am so excited. I&rsquo;m new to options trading, and any kind of trading, just to be honest. And I must admit&hellip; it&rsquo;s a little scary, but I followed your buy alert on XLF and bought one contract. Just dipping my toe in, so to speak. I grew up on a farm just like you did, just one state to the east. So, you have to show me the way, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>And boy, I am glad I did. I closed my position on your first sell alert and took my gains. It&#8217;s not a lot of money, but for me, it was a big confidence builder. It also gave my wife confidence in me that I can make some money this way for our retirement.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re both in our late fifties. We were married in our thirties and started our family of six. We still have four children living at home, so we haven&#8217;t been able to concentrate on retirement. So, when I saw your <em>Three Stock Retirement Blueprint<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/jeff-clark-trader\/special-reports\/the-3-stock-retirement-blueprint\"><em>Jeff Clark Trader<\/em> subscribers can access that here<\/a>), I jumped in. I thought maybe this will be the opportunity we need to build our future. At least it&#8217;s a start, and anything is better than nothing at this point in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>So, thank you, Jeff, for your help so far and I look forward to your next alert so I can maybe dip a little<br \/>\nmore in than just a toe. But I&#8217;ll remember my training, and not over-leverage my account and lose the little confidence I do have.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>&ndash; Christopher<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left: 4px solid #ccc; margin: 0px 30px 0px 10px;padding-left: 15px;\">\n<p>Hi Jeff, I&rsquo;m a new <em>Jeff Clark Trader<\/em> and <em>Delta Report<\/em> subscriber as of just three weeks. I like your style as I&rsquo;m just beginning to &ldquo;re-learn&rdquo; trading options after being away from it for many years.<\/p>\n<p>I almost pulled the trigger on the GDX trade a week or so ago that you liked, but I did pull the XLF trigger, which has paid for my subscription and then some.<\/p>\n<p> Talk about immediate return on investment! Thank you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>&ndash; Todd<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left: 4px solid #ccc; margin: 0px 30px 0px 10px;padding-left: 15px;\">\n<p>I subscribed two weeks ago and got in on the XLF option trade. After a week, I was able to sell it for more! I&#8217;m excited with outcomes like this! I also knew nothing about the stock market before subscribing. Thanks for your lessons to help beginners!<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>&ndash; Tyler<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left: 4px solid #ccc; margin: 0px 30px 0px 10px;padding-left: 15px;\">\n<p>Hello Jeff, I recently subscribed to <em>Jeff Clark Trader<\/em> and it&rsquo;s the best $19 I&rsquo;ve parted with. Although we lag the markets here in the UK, I decided to take the XLF trade that you recommended, although I could only get in at a decent price. I nearly doubled my gain in less than four days! I&rsquo;m very happy with that.<\/p>\n<p>I also started watching your training videos (<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/jeff-clark-trader\/archives\/media\">paid subscribers can access them here<\/a>), which have been a great boost to my overall knowledge and have added valuable perspective to the trading landscape. I&rsquo;m looking forward to learning more and piggybacking from your experience! Best wishes and kind regards from across the pond.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>&ndash; Colin<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left: 4px solid #ccc; margin: 0px 30px 0px 10px;padding-left: 15px;\">\n<p>New subscriber here. I just closed on the XLF option and made money in one week. Jeff&rsquo;s system worked well. I&rsquo;m waiting for your next recommendation and will keep you, and others, informed. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>&ndash; Ronald<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you, as always, for your thoughtful comments. We look forward to reading them every day. Keep them coming at <a href=\"mailto:feedback@jeffclarktrader.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feedback@jeffclarktrader.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Easter bunny agreed to take questions during a press conference last Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[7],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-16029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-jeff-clark"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16029"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=16029"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=16029"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=16029"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=16029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}