Fed Sees Risk As Transitory but Markets Say This

Overall markets not seeing much movement this week, but don’t get lulled into a false sense of security. In the SPX there’s still $60 of movement up or down that can happen over the next 2 days. There’s major earnings announcements in AAPL, FB, and AMZN still to come. Here are the types of trades I’m going to take the remainder of the week…

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Earnings Galore! Expected Moves and Levels in Play Today

This week gives us dozens of major market cap stocks reporting earnings, and while some will beat and some will miss, we’re following each stock in terms of option volatility-based expected moves and price outcomes. In today’s video, Corey highlights GOOGL and MSFT targets and plans for tomorrow’s trading session. Facebook (FB) and Apple (AAPL) report tomorrow so you can use this same logic to their earnings outcomes…

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Markets Shrug Off All Worries

Last Week–Goldilocks Markets or a Wrecking Ball of Risk?–Unbreakable! Market update——Markets finish the week lower—EM on indices and sectors — Hist Vol—Options/futures volumes decline—SPX rides lower edge of EM MONSTER week for Earnings––NFLX flop an anomaly or more bad news coming?–AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL, FB, TSLA Crypto smackdown–micro bitcoin kicks off May 2nd FOMC Meeting––No fear! Inflation is Transitory! SPX Expected Move–last week– 54.43  (expected move)–next week– 61.64

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Earnings, Expected News, and Bearish News – What’s Next?

In today’s session, headline news sent shares tumbling lower, snapping rapidly back from another overbought level to end the day into key weekly expected moves. On top of that, key stocks reported earnings as we look forward to even more earnings yet to come. What’s next, what do we do, and how do we stay safe? Find out in tonight’s video update…

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Bears Take their Swipe as NFLX Falls on Earnings

Stocks continued their sell-off from the highs for a second day, and NFLX could pressure them further. After the bell, Netflix (NFLX) reported earnings but the share price fell, putting a focus on tech stocks and other key sectors. In tonight’s video, Corey highlights the current – overdue – “snap-back” pullback along with key levels and upcoming earnings for the week.

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Is Volatility Making a Comeback?

With the monsters of tech, financials, and energy relatively flat what’s moving the markets lower? Here’s the concentration of risk in the markets and why you should be aware if volatility is coming back…

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Goldilocks Markets or a Wrecking Ball of Risk?

Market update——Bullish grind goes on—Options/futures volumes decline—SPX hits upper edge of EM—EM on indices and sectors Bonds behaving badly–bond impl vol and IV Rank–bonds suffice for a premium sale Financials smoke earnings and slop around! Dichotomy of market opinion——Cathie Wood Buys 350 million COIN—David Einhorn says markets are broken—crypto goes mainstream VVIX continues its assent SPX Expected Move–last week– 57.96  (expected move)–next week– 54.43

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Stocks Up, Bonds Up, but Financials Down and Other Oddities of the Day

Don’t feel bad if you felt a little confused by today’s outcome with financial stocks reporting strong earnings but their price fell, stocks surged to yet another new all-time high, yet bonds surged right along stocks. It’s enough to make your head spin. In tonight’s video, Corey highlights these developments and the drop in Treasury yields as stocks remained resilient with new highs locked in today…

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