One Signal Can Be Noise. What Happens When Three Line Up?
Gianni Di Poce tracks the long-term Tide, mid-term Wave, and short-term Ripple—looking for the moments when all three point in the same direction. → See How the Alignment Works

Can Markets Hold it together through Earnings?

SP500 sees docile moves as Nasdaq continues to have tantrums!

Which sectors are driving trade?
–Tech is lagging
–Financials are leading
–QQQ vs IWM vs SPY
–ETF sector comparison

VIX is lying on the floor but not dead !

Metals are inflationary or is this a protective trade?

Earnings and Earnings trades
–Big Banks say the worst is yet to come
–NFLX barfed into the EM

SPX Expected Move
–last week– 76.30 (expected move)
–next week– 74.44

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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