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Are Markets Displaying Inefficient Behavior?

Expected Move Breeches!
–SPX
–IWM
–QQQ
–XLF
–XLE
–TLT

Rotation and Bifurcation comeback?

Are rising rates going to become an issue again?

Stress Test! Banks and Buybacks

Dollar reservations

Crypto cracks not proliferating…

Volatility Dropped but the “tail risk” is still wagging
–VVIX
–SKEW
–Back month premium

Front and Back Month Premium
–decay in the X-Mas Tree Ratio Spread

SPX Expected Move
–last week– 90.48 (expected move)
–next week– 53.25

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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