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Big, Bad, and Bullish?

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-Fed hikes and markets rally
-This is NOT a retail rally
-Two-sided trade ?
-Low volume / limited liquidity – XLE & XLF
-NASDAQ rebalance had no material impact
-Correlation makes a brief appearance
-Earnings on deck AAPL, AMZN
-Will bonds/rates threaten the rally?

SPX Expected Move–
– last week – 61.59 (expected move 5 day week)
– next week – 54.13 (expected move 5 day week)

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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