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Fear or Embrace the Rally?

Market Risk Factors–

-bank earnings excellent, will tech and retail fair as well? (supply chain)

-oil and energy pricing at extremes

-bonds/rates continue to be threatening factor

-FED tapering is coming

-dollar backs off nominally

-massive volatility crush but only in the near term!

-SKEW coming back

Trading —

-buy volatility when you can!

-long is not wrong but use spreads

-volatility crush will not kill options premium selling as skew comes back into play

SPX Expected Move

–last week– 80.10 (expected move)

–next week– 61.46

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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