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Are You Prepared for the Coming Volatility Storm?

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Market Update–

–Rates are outa control!
–rising rates will break markets
–bond volatility exceeding VIX
–why is VIX dead with risk bearing down?
–another week another edge of expected move

Positioning–
–selling premium, tread lightly, imp vol feels low
–sell whats strong and let correlation grip hold

SPX Expected Move–
–last week– 76.70 (expected move)

–next week– 98.06 (expected move)

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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