Upside Market Chaos Continues!
Markets continue to be dragged higher by a few stocks that have gone parabolic. Where most of the volume has dried up in the market it has all gone to these few underlyings. Here are the 2 strategies I'm using to play this risk in the market. One gives me consistent 30% gains and the…
Bifurcation and the Death of Diversification
QQQ and the hedge that saved my bacon--yes I am still short but hedges have helped Long is dangerous and hedging is tough--even a tail has RISK! Expected moves and the great bifurcation--QQQ, SPY, IWM, XLE, XLF Diversification is DEAD!--NASDAQ 100--SP500--EEM--Low Beta does not constitute low risk--Where are you gonna go? SPX Expected Move--last week--…
A Mild Sell-0ff or a Warning Shot?
Stocks selloff mildly today as many traders are looking at the S&P potentially being at a double top. Here's a trade Don did today that for very little money gives you a huge reward if there was a big sell off by the end of the yearā¦
Insanely Low Volume with Markets at Highs
Markets continue to grind higher on the back of fewer stocks. Tonight Don will show you which sectors to keep an eye on this week. Volume today was very low as TD Ameritrade was down for most of the trading day in the biggest and longest outage in the firms history. Open a NEW tastyworks…
Big Bond Traders are Back
Bonds on the move-- Rates move higher, XLF stalled-- Buying bond volatility-- Utilities- get ready to move people SlopFEST!-- A/D line rising with markets falling Backspreads and Gamma Irons --- Long Gamma and Vol-- IV buyer - Long Gamma-- IWM, LULU, SPY, GLD-- NFLX SPX Expected Move--last week-- 63.05 (expected move)--next week-- 64.02
Making New Highs on Bad Economic Data?
Tech stocks drive the markets higher today while giving the financials rally a rest. Here's a trade I put on today in one of the tech behemothsā¦
Bifurcation Begins to Pull Markets Apart
While stock indices were down today the markets saw a 50/50 advance/decline line. The rotation game continues this time out of tech into financials. Bonds, gold, and silver all had their biggest declines in some time. Here's what to expect the rest of the weekā¦
Return of the Bidless NASDAQ Beast
SPX - spot on the Weekly Expected Move Russell is a rockin' in the rotation game Bond Volatility is DEAD - it's gamma time! Could bonds sell off? Reflation trade back in style? FB - Skew inverts as retail comes pouring in VIX & VVIX --- buy volatility on volatility, if only volatility is low…
Summer Slopfest or Calm before the Volatility Storm?
The S&P is just a stone throw away from the upper expected move for the week so that is an area we expect to be hit tomorrow. With bonds rallying are investors throwing caution to the wind too soon? Find out in tonight's video newsletter...
Market Breakout to Breakdown?
AAPL and MSFT have a combined market cap of a whopping $3.5 trillion dollars and were the only 2 stocks driving the market higher today. To put that in perspective these 2 companies are valued at more than 1/8th of the entire US national debt. At the same time the market is still in a…
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