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Interest Rates Soaring… Can Markets Hold it Together?

On the edge of Expected

It is a rally! Unless you’re Tech…

Russell Explodes higher opening opportunities

The FED Cometh!
—Rates are sending Jerome a message
—bring on the FOMC
—yield curve
—So are we doing the Twist or YCC?
–implications for financials and energy

Skew
VIX
VVIX
SRVIX
TLT volatility

Quad Witch
SPX Expected Move
–last week EM– 99.57
–next week– 73.54 expected move

Don Kaufman

Don Kaufman is options trader and educator. Former CBOE market maker, former Chief Derivatives Instructor at thinkorswim, and former Director of the Trader Group at TD Ameritrade. In 2015 he co-founded TheoTrade to teach traders how volatility, probability, and risk really work.

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09.00	Don Kaufman \| Pre-Market Prep \| FREE SESSION 09.20 09.30 Don Kaufman \| Early volatility 09.20 10.30
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