One of the most surprising parts of the results is this: 435 winning trades and 434 losing trades. Almost a 50/50 win rate. And yet, the system still produced over $13,000 in net profit on a $5,000 account. Why? Because the winners were consistently larger than the losers. That's the entire edge—risk control, not prediction. → See how risk and reward are structured on every trade.

AAPL takes a Hit and Presents a GOOG Opportunity

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The FOMC announcement finally arrived today. As expected rates were left unchanged, but announced a $10 billion a month unwinding of their whopping $4.5 trillion balance sheet beginning in October. For perspective at $10 billion a month it would take the Fed 37 and a half years to completely unwind their balance sheet. In this video market update let’s look at the markets reaction and what to expect going forward. Also watch this video for a trade opportunity in AAPL and GOOGL…

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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