September Stock Market Moves: Buy the Dip, Hold Reserves & Key Strategies for the Fall

In this Market Mondays **clip**, Rashad Bilal, Ian Dunlap, and Troy Millings break down the best market advice for September based on historical data and their proven experience. Whether you're new to stock trading or a seasoned investor, you’ll get straightforward tips on navigating the usually volatile months of August and September, including how to take advantage of market dips and why consistent investing each month — “buy every month!” — wins in the long run.

*What’s Covered in This Clip:*

• Why buying shares consistently is more effective than overanalyzing information
• The importance of focusing on top media stocks like Microsoft, Nvidia, Netflix, and Google
• Troy’s tip on maintaining reserves so you always have capital ready to invest during corrections
• A clear explanation of *Quadruple Witching* (set your calendar for September 19th!) — why this event shakes up the markets and how to be prepared
• Key strategies for entering the market before volatility spikes, especially in September
• How holding for the long term lets you weather short-term pullbacks and set up for year-end rallies

If you want to maximize your portfolio returns through disciplined buying, understanding critical market cycles, and taking advantage of timely opportunities, this clip is a must-watch. Stay tuned as Troy even hints at an exclusive options contract demonstration for Market Mondays VIPs!

*Key Takeaways:*

• Buy shares every month, regardless of short-term market moves
• Keep cash reserves so you’re ready for pullbacks and corrections
• Focus on high-performing, time-tested stocks
• Don’t panic during volatility; use it as an entry point for the long term
• Understand major expiration dates like quadruple witching and how they impact markets

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Speaker 4 (01:54):
The market advice for September based off of historical data?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
September We're gonna make everything real simple.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
We need all the complicated answers when the market moves
three and a half standard deviations. No, if the market
drops in August and September, we're going to buy in
August and September. Wisht I guess well on the months
when it's up in April and January, what we're gonna do.
We're going to buy in April and January. We're going
to put in chat. We're going to buy every month.

(02:24):
We are going to buy every single month. Now if
we have a dip, which we had a little bit
of a pullback. Some people were worried about bitcoin. You
shouldn't be. But the biggest lesson is to be able
to buy a certain amount of shares every month, regardless
of what the market is doing. That includes crypto. We're
hovering at like the one hundred and nine and some change.

(02:46):
We should hit one oh seven or one oh six
on bitcoin. But the key is to buy every month.
And also the ratio of execution of buying is more
important than the ratio of information that you take in.
It's great to know all the information in the world,
but some of the people I've seen have the biggest
returns and the most amount of shares. They just buy

(03:09):
and don't look at all the information to say, Okay,
I know these are the four I'm going to invest in.
Like I was talking earlier, if you're in media, Microsoft
and video, Netflix.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Google, are the only four you needed?

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Media?

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Well, what about paramount extra plus out of the equation?
Disney love Disney the corporation shout to everybody on an
executive for YadA YadA, But those.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Are the Big four.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Make it simple by every month, and if we have
a great pullback in September, it's your time to execu.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, I figured you was going to go that route.
I had buy, but I switched minds up. I put
have reserves, right, so make sure I know people invest
in every month, but make sure you have money to
invest in.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
And so having reserve is important.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
We talked about the interest rates, and we'll know about
that in the next couple of weeks in this month,
but I think something that gets looked over, especially in
the future market, definitely in the options market, is quadruple witching,
which is going to happen this month. So it happens
in the third month of each quarter, the third week,
so September nineteen circle.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
That on your calendars.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
On your calendars, that is an expiration date where all
simultaneously will expire. So the options markets will have expiration
dates on that date, futures markets, etf indexes, they all
have it around that time. And what you'll see is
people will sell to take profits, all right, So you're
going to see sometimes a down trend or a nice correction.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'll pull back around that time.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
But that's all part of the game, right, You're in
this to make money, and so when people make money
and they take profits, this is what happens. And so
circle that date September nineteenth. Around that week you might
see some volatility and that will happen at the same
time presumably when we'll know about the interest rate hike
or you know, maybe not a hike.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
So it should be an interesting time. There will be
some volatility here.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
But have some reserves in the event either way, because
like you said, you want to make sure that you're
getting at the right price, which is why you're inside
of stock club. But you want to make sure that
you're getting it for the long term, and so you
can get some really generational prices and keep them for
the long term.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
So have reserves. That would be my two words.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, Spy gets back to six thirty eight forty five,
I said area I would like to potentially enter. And
then also with quiet which and coming up, you want
to be out three or four days before the expiration.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
You don't want to hold them into that actual date.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
And I know sometimes it can be fearful to hold
for a long period of time. But when everyone says
I want to buy the dip from a mathematical standpoint,
September in August will give you those entries. If you're
looking to hold for a long term five years, like
you won't even remember any draw downs or pullbacks that
you have. But September is a definitely a great time,

(05:51):
especially going into the fourth quarter and into the Christmas rally. Yeah,
and into January, you're going to be okay, hold for
the long term.

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So anybody that's been with us and watching some of
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(06:21):
what it looks like to sell an options contract.

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