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FED Induced Asset Implosion Underway?

Bond/Tech Dynamic
–FED, rates, balance sheet
–economic reports and Fed Speak

Critical Market Levels –
–/ES 4500 and below is shear market carnage
–NASDAQ oversold 30 day, 1 hour
–Lack of volatility movement on selling
–Mega market caps to watch
–Correlation non-existent

Bitcoin Sell-off
–Implications and Correlations

Enter Earnings Season!
–JPM, C, WFC

SPX Expected Move–
–last week — 62.48 (expected move)
–next week — 75.98

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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I Spent This Week At A Thinkorswim Reunion

	Today
08.30	OJ & Mac \| Overnight review \| FREE SESSION 08.30 09.20 Don Kaufman \| Early volatility 09.20 10.30
09.00
09.30
10.00
10.30	Jeff Bierman \| Market structure 10.30 11.30
11.00	Jeff Bierman \| Market structure 10.30 11.30
11.30	Brandon Chapman \| Ghost Hour 11.30 12.30
12.00	Brandon Chapman \| Ghost Hour 11.30 12.30
12.30	Gianni Di Poce \| Macro overview 12.30 13.15 Corey Rosenbloom \| Options tactics 13.15 14.00
13.00
13.30
14.00	Tony Rago \| Futures Trading 14.00 15.00
14.30	Tony Rago \| Futures Trading 14.00 15.00
15.00	Blake Young & Mac Holbrook \| Market wrap 15.00 16.00
15.30	Blake Young & Mac Holbrook \| Market wrap 15.00 16.00