@Lionfish
I did say you could laugh at me if it did not work out.
Anyway, I have found in life that you can fail a lot of the time, as long as your wins more than make up for your losses. It was upsetting to lose so much money in one day, and to have it happen on two days, but then I look and see I am still up for the year, and I am OK.
Right now I am buying a series of options. Once a week, I buy some puts on SPY(basically the S&P 500) five weeks away from expiring. Last week I bought them at a strike price of $630 for an average price of $4.07. This week I will probably get it at a strike price of $640.
Most will expire out of the money. A few will [HOPEFULLY] make a huge return. At the rate I am going, I can easily do this for the next 65 weeks without dipping into the money I need/want for retirement and family obligations. So I would be looking for a major downward adjustment any time before 2027.
If it does payoff at some point over the next year and a quarter, I would take some of the money and put it in my standard retirement investments. Currently my plan for most of the money would be invested in puts and calls around SPY and GLD. Basically, I would want to profit from trump instability, while the "nothing ever happens" investors continue to expect stability.