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Your Midwest Garden Podcast

Mike O'Rourke, Scott Sandstrom

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A casual conversation about gardening in the Midwest with Toledo's Garden Guy, Mike O'Rourke and Rookie Gardener, Scott Sandstrom. Mike interviews various guests, from experts to local DIY gardeners in a relaxed conversation. While Scott keeps the subjects down to the weekend warrior level. We hope you enjoy each podcast episode, as even the most basic topics can reveal a surprise tip or hint you may not know about! Your Midwest Garden is sponsored by Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. Se ...
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Mike Siegel and Julie Oliver of Ground Game Texas present a weekly conversation on the progressive movement in Texas with the people and organizations hard at work on the front lines. Airing each Monday afternoon at 5PM Central on KPFT-FM in Houston, and available in podcast form weekly.
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In this episode, we have Brent Kachuba from Spot Gamma on to discuss their newly released game changing indicator called TRACE. The TRACE indicator is expertly designed to show options positioning from a dealer's perspective in a heat map form making it so much easier to structure various types of trades. If you are an SPX weekly options trader, pa…
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Send us a text Today's episode recorded just before Summer 2024 ended, is a part two of sorts to our recent episode, The Forgotten Season. This episode has Lisa teaching us about building and using garden row covers. Which let's us to continue growing cool weather veggies all winter long. Doesn't some fresh veggies sound great in the dead of the wi…
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Send us a text ENCORE EPISODE: Bringing back one you may have missed in the archives... listen into VINE TIME! Gourds, Pumpkins or Squash? Mike has a mystery fruit growing in NW Ohio, bringing up the question about Cucurbita (Latin for gourd) or herbaceous vines in the gourd family. Then, the alternative use of pumpkin seeds... got to listen in for…
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Greats discussion this week around the psychology of automated trading with Co-Founder Mike Christensen of TradersPost.io. Traders Post allows you to automate trades using buy and sell signals from platforms like Trading View and Trend Spider. Even though automated trading can reduce human execution errors, the psychology of automated trading is st…
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Send us a text Today, along with the Midwest Garden Gal... we walk through the simple step by step process of growing garlic in the Midwest. The good news is that this prcess is spread out over a nine month period and five of those months you don't have much to do at all... if ANYTHING! Join us and bring a pencil & paper. We once again welcome in o…
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Patience and discipline are a big part of trading and when you are executing on a strategy, its important to understand that being in cash and not in a particular trade is part of that strategy. Want to connect? Find me on LinkedIn or X: Eric O'Rourke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jericorourke/ Eric O'Rourke: https://twitter.com/OptionAssassin After…
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Send us a text , ALERT EPISODE: Today's episode stared with a conversation with a garden center customer. And took off from there... Mike & I have brought on board a returning guest, Amy Stone, of The Ohio State Extension Office to discuss the invasive Tree of Heaven. And the tag along friend, the Spotted Lantern Fly. We chat about how hard it is t…
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Updated options trading research now available in the SPX Income Masterclass geared towards beginners with small accounts and for those who don't want to watch the market all day. The strategies included in this Lifetime Access and Updates course are mechanical in nature and lend themselves to automated trading which is also discussed in the course…
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Send us a text The Midwest Garden Gal joins us once again to discuss The Forgotte n Season. The late planting season time to sow some more cool weather veggies right now in mid August! Take a listen and take advantage of the warm soil and soon to be cool morning dew. PLUS, get some cucumber scoop form the Iowa expert herself! Here's the Grow guide:…
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If you trade the S&P500, then this series is for you. In the S&P500 Navigator series, we'll discuss current market conditions including options positions, major economic events, and AlphaCrunching.com's Triumph Rates for trading short term SPX weekly options. In this episode, we'll talk about a trade idea to express a short term bearish thesis of S…
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Updated options trading research now available in the SPX Income Masterclass geared towards beginners with small accounts and for those who don't want to watch the market all day. The strategies included in this Lifetime Access and Updates course are mechanical in nature and lend themselves to automated trading which is also discussed in the course…
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Send us a text The guys welcome in, returning guest from Season One... Melisa Sherman-Weckerlin! Melisa is the grower at Black Diamond Garden Centers, our business and sponsor, where she also oversees plant buying. Melisa and Scott have been discussing natives though-out the work days this year and it was time to bring her back to educate us with s…
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Send us a text Mike & Scott touch on a number of mid-summer gardening issues. From using a "Phone A Friend" Lifeline to basic tomato end rot to save your next harvest. Black Diamond Garden Centers Welcome Black Diamond Nursery & Lawn Service. We been a local business in Toledo for over 70 years! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If yo…
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As the market continues to defy gravity and hit new highs every week it seems, you may be thinking about how you can protect any stocks you may be holding. In this episode, we'll discuss a put spread collar trade which can allow you to get some downside protection while at the same time giving you room for more upside participation. I came across t…
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Send us a text YMGP went on "on the road" today... we visited the Lucas Soil and Water Conservation District offices to discuss what they do and to find out about an event they are in charge of. So, if you are close by, plan on making a day trip to Holland, Ohio for the Lucas County Farm Connection, on July 20th, 2024. https://www.lucasswcd.org/lcf…
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If you trade the S&P500, then this series is for you. In the S&P500 Navigator series, we'll discuss current market conditions including options positions, major economic events, and AlphaCrunching.com's Triumph Rates for trading short term SPX weekly options. Want to connect with myself? Find me on LinkedIn and X: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/…
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Send us a text Just a quick update on some news for YMGP as Feedspot RSS Reader has listed our show in their top 15 gardening podcasts for 2024! The best Nursery podcasts from thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by relevancy, authority, social media followers & freshness. Listen in for all the details, plus a few more tidbits. https://podca…
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Caitlin Clark is the NVDA of the WNBA and Cathie Wood is Team USA. In today's episode, we'll go over some similarities between these two powerhouses who both have strong momentum and putting up staggering numbers in their respective domains. But the decision to leave Clark off Team USA for the 2022 Summer Olympics is like cutting your winners short…
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When researching a new trading strategy, its important to not only look at things like total profit and win rate, but its just as important to look at the P/L curve of the strategy to determine if its something you'll actually be able to trade. In this episode, we'll discuss some of the nuances that the P/L curve can give you as opposed to just pro…
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Send us a text Today we welcome back The Midwest Garden Gal for a pollinators discussion. But more so, since June is perennial month and pollinators week falls within the month of June, we decided to combine the subjects into one fun conversation. Lisa, The MGG, is based in Iowa and its nice to get that western midwest side of the gardening world n…
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Send us a text It seems like a perennial, the Asiatic lilies are on the come back... popularity wise. These easy to care for "true" lilies have great size and colorful blooms. So stop reading this and hit PLAY on your favorite podcast player app and get the scoop on these sun loving, tropical looking lilies! Black Diamond Garden Centers Welcome Bla…
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Erik Smolinski is back on the show to talk about applying the concept of First Principles to options trading. Erik is behind the esInvests YouTube channel where he puts out regular content around trading. I had so much fun in the conversation talking about out approaches to options trading these days, how we have evolved over time, backtesting, psy…
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Send us a text What we thought would be a super fast episode... turned into a number of revealing tidbits unknown to Mike. But not to worry, Mike had a thing or two on that 5th Year Rookie. And Scott's hoping his one impressive tidbit find, YOU may not know either... listen in and find out! Black Diamond Garden Centers Welcome Black Diamond Nursery…
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The full trade details and options trading research discussed in this episode can be found in this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/RxWg5HdeiEY When it comes to researching and trading strategies and then implementing them, there are many additional factors that don't make it into the backtest. In this episode, I walk through a recent 1DTE trade in …
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Send us a text The FOUR C's for this show are not what all the ladies are thinking... today's diamonds are not carats (but carrots is a better guess). Nope, today's C's are Cosmos, Coleus, Cleome and Cabbage (?). A few sun loving plants we think need 15 seconds more fame than they are getting. So let Mike & Scott help introduce these plants to you,…
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Trading options in a small account is possible and in this episode, we'll cover several considerations for doing so. These include: realistic expectations, which strategies are best, and what to focus on. Want to connect with myself? Find me on LinkedIn: Eric O'Rourke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jericorourke/ After that, join other listeners at ht…
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Send us a text Steve, one of our loyal listeners introduced Mike & I to Lisa Hinzman Howard, aka The Midwest Garden Gal after he attended one of her garden show lectures. That gave us a chance to invite Lisa on the show to discuss her recent book, Cheap Tricks Gardening. Listen in as we talk about the western half of the midwest and about facets of…
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Send us a text Let’s talk lawns, subscribers. If you fertilize your own or have a lawn service company push the spreader, you should know the basics. And seeing that the first-round application is close to closing as this article prints, it’s time to get spreading. But the biggest advice is this; if you’re going to spend the money fertilizing, plea…
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In this episode, we reveal a SPX weekly options strategy selling put credit spreads that expire the following day. This strategy uses bullish TTR readings from Alpha Crunching to determine whether or not to take the trade that day. Today's episode is from a video training recently sent to Alpha Crunching subscribers and posted in the free community…
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In this episode, I'll briefly explain what options net flow is. In short, many of the options flow providers now offer some version of options net flow which is a graphical way to gauge the options sentiment of a stock or index. I find this mush more useful and applicable compare to the traditional overwhelm of a grid based data feed. Want to conne…
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Send us a text The guys get into the nitty gritty of the Goldenrod, which gets a bad rap as a ragweed. A native North American perennial wildflower that's tall, slim with fluffy golden flower spikes in various shades of yellow. Once an invasive species, we discuss the change in direction for this easy to grow beauty. Black Diamond Garden Centers We…
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In this episode, I got to speak to Mat Cashman, Principal of Investor Education at OCC. Mat takes us through the life cycle of an options trade by explaining the inner workings of the market and some of the players and institutions that make it all possible. One of those institutions is the OCC (The Options Clearing Corporation) which is the world’…
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Send us a text One of the first spring bloomers, even popping up through the snow... the Hellebore. Associated with the Easter holiday, the Hellebore or Lenten Rose has an interesting association with the rising of Christ, the first bloomer of spring and of interesting note is actually an evergreen? Tune in as we have more tidbits of info to pass a…
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In this new segment, we'll discuss current micro trends and patterns in the stock market using insights from Alpha Crunching. Alpha Crunching provides time series analysis and forecasts for the S&P500 which can reveal short term trading patterns in the context of larger trend. In this episode, we'll discuss a neutral bearish strategy of selling cal…
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Send us a text Many think the Clematis Vine is a fragile, delicate flower. That it's a hard plant to keep going. But Scott thinks it's a great tropical looking climber and would look great in a sunny area. So we dive into the ABCs of the queen of the climbers... from A to Z! Listen in to hear what we discovered while doing our homework. Black Diamo…
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Send us a text Multiple chances of recycling occur with worm composting... from garbage to garden. Saving the landfills, food scraps that feed the worms, worms recycling that into compost, compost giving nutrients to veggies/herbs, veggies coming back onto our plates. The garden circle of life, all with the help of worms. From the common worms we p…
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Send us a text And we're back... season number five has officially begun! To keep everyone from getting frostbite, I know... the warmer weather has hit us early but lets keep the itch to garden in the planning stages. Until the temps are consistently warm, all the critters are still in their winter naps. Disturbing their beds would be a bad thing w…
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In this episode, we'll try to answer the question of whether or not holding to expiration is better than taking profits early when being a net options seller. We'll explore this question by comparing a recently posted SPX Weekly Options Strategy from the SPX Income Masterclass. We'll compare holding the trades to expiration from 2021-2023 vs. takin…
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In this episode, I detail a recent Iron Condor trade I ended up rolling up and out due to bullish stock market conditions. I'll explain how I was able to recenter the Iron Condor around the current price without having to add any more risk to the trade. This allowed me to stay in the trade longer so I could profit from time decay. Want to connect w…
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Send us a text GETTING THAT ITCH TO GET BACK INTO THE GARDEN? WELL NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME TO PREP. AND THAT MEANS GIVING YOUR PLANTS THE BEST WATER AVAILABLE... LISTEN IN TO THIS RECENT, BUT IMPORTANT EPISODE! We were in search of why rain water perks up our lawns and gardens more than tap water. Not a scientific white paper chat, but a quick 101.…
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In this episode, I got to speak with John from GexBot.com to talk about how the stock market startup came to be as well as the information it provides short term traders using GEX (gamma exposure) and the options profile. To learn more about GexBot, check out their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@gexbot and be sure to follow them on …
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In this episode, I discuss how I'm building a position with Tesla stock and two things that spooked me after entering. Depending on when you are listening to this episode, my position may have changed or been closed depending on market conditions. This episode is for educational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice of any kin…
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In this episode, we'll cover some tips an tricks when putting Buy Sell Indicators on your charts so that you don't get chopped up and frustrated. Finding the usefulness of the indicator should be the primary goal when adding it your chart. Alpha Traders Club is where I host my 0DTE Live Chat each day for trading SPX 0DTE and 1DTE trades. We focus o…
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I made my first trading mistake of 2024 on the very first trading day of the year. So in this episode, I walk you through that day and the mistake I made with my trade. Alpha Traders Club is where I host my 0DTE Live Chat each day for trading SPX 0DTE and 1DTE trades. We focus on the premarket data and levels, technical analysis, and options flow f…
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In this last episode for 2023, I'll share a trade taken in our Alpha Traders Club group last week on FOMC day. This trade was a way to make money if the market moved a lot after the FOMC minutes were released. Interested in Alpha Traders Club for trading SPX 0DTE and 1DTE as well as Covered Calls on stocks and ETFS? Here's the link to join: https:/…
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Low VIX got you think about changing your options trades? Here's my thoughts on the adjustments I'm making in some of my options trades because of the low volatility in late 2023. Use code SPX50 for 50% your first month of https://www.alphacrunching.com. Alpha Crunching is a unique analytics app for short term traders of the S&P500. Want to connect…
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In this episode, I'll talk about how when it comes to options trading, you need more than the options probabilities to have an edge and to make money over time. We'll go through an example of using a put credit spread backtest as well as some new research from Alpha Crunching for trading them. The TTR is a new metric from https://www.alphacrunching…
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Best Options Strategy For Small Accounts and Beginners In this episode, we'll revisit what I think is the best options strategy for small accounts and beginners. We're going replay Episode 2 of the podcast from March 2020 where I explained the idea of selling put credit spreads similar to how an insurance company would sell car insurance. If you ar…
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Check out Alpha Traders Club for live conservative option alerts each and every week. Here's the link: https://www.stockmarketoptionstrading.net/spaces/12282222 Creating consistent income trading options come down to having a repeatable process that you can execute. Brian Terry shared his process that he uses week over week to create additional ret…
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Send us a text Our last episode for the 2023 gardening season... a little smorgasbord of last minute things to do, Mike does a reverse pop quiz on Scott, plus a few insights on the most downloaded episodes of season four. Jump to the end for several of our coupon codes... help support our show (popularity wise) by purchasing with these codes and pl…
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