What Do Markets Say about the Election?

Risk into the Friday Bell! Broken Brexit does not impact markets Massively UNCHED on the WEEK–pull back off the upper EM Retail Sales–AMZN drops on big sales Heavy Earnings Week Coming–TSLA, NFLX, INTC Reading the Vol SKEW–election risk growing? Getting a read on risk-–VVIX–Dollar–Bonds SPX Expected Move–last week– 71.91 (expected move)–next week– 80.94

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Last Call to Buy Volatility!

The stock market pulls back to about where it started the week. Everyone see the volatility ahead and here are the types of long volatility trades Don is looking at…

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Markets Navigate a Path full of Headline Risk

In tonight’s video, Corey highlights how to think about risk and headline events going forward in the next few weeks. We also highlight stimulus and the path of leading financial stocks along with the ETF XLF. Finally, Corey pinpoints some of the ‘strong stocks getting stronger’ but on the verge of a pullback now…

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Buy the Rumor, Sell the Financials

Earnings season kicked off with financials which led to a little bit of selling today. Don takes you inside his positions and as to why he took off his hedge and has a more directional bias at the moment.

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Be on Your Game, Volatility is Far from Dead

Markets – What Me Worry––Buy the Stimulus Rumor, Sell the Stimulus Deal ?–Big, Bad, and Binary–we are a tweet away from greatness or destruction Large Daily Ranges have NOT Abated–stay focused on your risk, wrap your deltas tight–assumption this bounce can fade at any point Shell Game–Russell has led the indices–NASDAQ comes alive–financials and energy fade DollarMetalsBondsVIX Vol Spreads SPX Expected Move–last week– 89.70 (expected move)–next week– 71.91 Bonds Markets Closed Monday

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Expected Move to Play Heavily into Market’s Next Move

Markets closed right at their weekly expected move prices Thursday, setting up a clear inflection point for Friday and into next week. In tonight’s video, Corey pinpoints all current Expected Moves in the markets and highlights which stocks are strengthening along with the market…

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Over Optimistic on Stimulus?

Stimulus on. Stimulus off. Stimulus on again. Markets getting whiplash as DC can’t seem to make a decision. The SPX is once again butting up against the expected move for the week. Here’s what to look for next…

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Markets Not Feeling Stimulated?

We had a wild session with high volatility and a logical sell-swing from the plan, but you may be surprised what caused the sell-side activity. In tonight’s video, Corey walks you through today’s action that ranged from the Fed Chief Powell discussing stimulus and a surprise tweet cutting off the possibility right before the close…

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TheoTrade co-founder, former CBOE market maker and thinkorswim Chief Derivatives Instructor.

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