Risk Surges for a Pullback to Sanity

Stocks especially tech stocks extended new all-time and 52-week highs today and risk continues to increase substantially to bulls and bears alike. In tonight’s video, Corey continues to pinpoint “strong stocks getting stronger” but balances this with the reality that the market is at highest risk for a pullback toward key levels defined in tonight’s video.

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Markets Up with Volatility Up?

A handful of stocks lead the markets higher, but volatility soars higher with it. Professionals are seeing the risk in this market and starting to hedge. Will retail traders follow suit?

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The Trade Driving Markets Higher

Trader Geek Speak –SKEW is extreme – index puts pricing big boy tail risk –no signs of correlation –Bonds drop driving rates higher –SPX rips through upper expected move –Gamma risk driving SPUZ in a perpetual trade to the upside –infuential productsSPX, SPY, VIX, TSLA, AAPL SPX Expected Move —–last week– 60.05–next week– 62.16

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The Trade that Rocked the Markets

Stocks go on roller coaster ride today helping us get out a few profitable positions. The real news of the day though was bonds and gold that suddenly got rocked thanks to the Fed. Here’s what to look for now that we are back in the Vomma Zone…

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Is This the Blow-Off Top You Were Looking For?

A touch of bullish insanity shook the market today with all-time highs extending in the SP500 and NASDAQ on the strength once again of leading tech names NFLX (up 11%), Facebook (FB up 8%), GOOGL, AMZN and others. These intraday straight-up price trends were stunning and could be the sign of a blow-off top exhaustion in the making. Despite these names, Corey highlights more stable ‘safety stocks’ still joining the market at all time highs and discusses the stocks that made new lows in tonight’s important update video.

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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 other is swinging for the fence…

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Playing in the “Rare Air” of All Time Highs – Which Stocks are Strongest?

Today the SP500 Index and NASDAQ made new all-time highs along with the ‘sizzle tech stocks” Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN) and others, but are you watching the less-flashy, less-volatile, safety stocks that are also joining the market at all-time highs?  In tonight’s video to start the week, Corey updates you on scans and stock candidates that continue to trend higher in safer trading opportunities than these high-flyers are giving us.

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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– 64.02 (expected move)–next week– 49.96

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