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Earnings Flips is Don Kaufman's approach to using expected-move levels and strategically constructed option spreads to define the trade before the announcement—and avoid relying on a simple up-or-down prediction. → Discover Earnings Flips

A Pairs Trade Emerges in these Major Indices

A light trading session today marks the start of earnings season though we have expectations of market Volatility picking back up as earnings go full swing. Several major banks will announcement this week but what has us entertained will be NFLX and MSFT later in the week. Finally, we will look in detail at a substantial pairs trading opportunity in the IWM vs the QQQ… 2 standard deviations from the norm provide a viable trade setup!

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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