S&P 500 Weakness, Options Strength: GAR Capital’s 2025 YTD Outperformance

In a chaotic start to 2025 marked by a bear market and sharp corrections, GAR Capital’s options alerts stood out with strong, market-beating performance.

S&P 500 Weakness, Options Strength: GAR Capital’s 2025 YTD Outperformance

Despite a turbulent start to 2025 marked by a volatile correction and bear market territory across major indices, GAR Capital’s options trading service has delivered remarkable outperformance. While most traders were caught off guard by increased volatility, our disciplined approach, technical strategy, and sharp execution helped our members stay both profitable and protected.

GAR Capital Options Alerts – YTD 2025 Performance (as of April 11) Starting with a $10,000 account, here are the results:

💰 Total Net Profit: $2,639

📈 Total YTD Return: +26.39%

✅ Win Rate: 65%

⚖️ Risk-Reward Ratio: 0.6

🔄 Profit Factor: 1.2

📆 Top Trading Day: Tuesday

💎 Best Trade: TSM – March 14 – $1,850 profit

📉 Worst Trade: NVDA – Feb 21 – $-496 loss

📊 Winning Trades: 64 total | Avg. profit: $230

📉 Losing Trades: 34 total | Avg. loss: -$355

This performance came during a market drawdown, showing the power of active options trading during both uptrends and pullbacks. There is a misconception that one cannot be profitable in a bear market trading just calls, these returns prove otherwise as we are very call skewed in our numbers (90% of our trades are calls this year). Like the saying goes "as long as the outcome--is income".

📊 Benchmark Comparison: GAR Capital vs QQQ ETF We compared our YTD return with that of the tech-heavy QQQ ETF, a common benchmark for active traders. Here’s how it stacked up:

GAR Capital Options: +26.39%

QQQ ETF (YTD): -10.99%

The difference is clear: GAR Capital more than doubled QQQ’s return, and we did it via options trades and very small risk, not passive investing.

🔥 Final Thoughts We’re proud of what we’ve achieved this year, but we can do better and we will. That is the goal, strive to be better each and every single trading day. We are even more proud of how our community stayed:

📚 Informed 📈 Profitable 🤝 Patient & Disciplined

With smart entries, strict discipline, and constant learning, we’ve made this bear market work for us—not against us. And we’re just getting started.

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