We talked a few weeks ago about the importance of participating when the market gets hot. The S&P 500 is up 24% in the past 12 months, which remains somewhere between double and triple its usual return rate. People who are content to buy and hold the index funds should feel pretty good about what they’ve accomplished.

But the past is the past. With so much anxiety out there, those index fund types have doubted and discounted their good fortune every step of the way. The economy is either too cold for them to escape their recession fears or too hot to make the Fed seem friendly.

That’s why they end up on that random walk. All the courage they have is only enough to keep them in the index funds . . . no more. And that’s all right. We can’t all end up big winners.

You need ambition to beat the market. You need courage to back that ambition up. And you need discipline to keep that courage open to the most lucrative opportunities available at any given moment.

Right now I’m proud to say that my subscribers have it all. Some of you are living the life of Wall Street movies: regular gains, high conviction, a sustainable framework for making trade after trade.

I mean, we’ve made money on EVERY ONE of the last 34 options trades I’ve engineered across all my subscriber portfolios. For 2-Day Trader, that means going back to late April. For Triple-Digit Trader, we’re looking at six calls built out of our core stock positions.

And for my High Octane Traders, the gains go back to the start of February. Uninterrupted. No losses.

Everybody is different. Some simply stake each trade with the same amount of cash and then harvest the profit. Others roll the wins to get the thrill of compound returns.

But however people do it, 34 wins in a row translates to strong end-to-end performance.That’s how the options market works. If you’re new to it, I can teach you. We’ve made money on our last 19 High Octane trades in a row.

The others are catching up at a rate of roughly one trade per week. Of course it takes a little ambition. But sometimes the ambitious win . . . again and again!