A Little Volatility Goes a Long Way

Is your risk reward viable? In this video Don shares his portfolio of trades and show you why risk reward is so important when trading. There’s still a lot of movement that can happen in these final 2 days of the week. Make sure you take advantage..

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Tech Leads Us Higher but Will it Last?

We saw yet another day of tech stock leadership driving the NASDAQ and XLK to new highs along with major uptrending stock AAPL and AMZN with NVDA and others at new highs.  What’s the short-term ‘fade’ play for this week balanced against the longer term uptrends?  Corey discusses this in tonight’s video.

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Ratio Backspread Trade Setups!

The market is giving us plenty of opportunities for ratio backspreads. If you’re new to this strategy it offers us the potential for mass returns with minimal risks. Here are a few backspreads I’m looking at…

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Massive Ranges, Minimal Movement

Overnight ranges are massive, keep focused people! Monsters of Tech will not die? Position Breakdown –VIX –Long Vol in the XLF –Understanding my Shorts –I’m a backspreading maniac Outlier moves continue but you need to see this! –QQQ- msft, amzn, roku, aapl –XLF, EEM, XLE, XHB, IWM SPX Expected Move –last week– 125.77 (expected move) –next week– 112.76

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Market Living on the Edge Before Expiration Friday

Get ready for a breakout! The market spent most of this week in a tight range but that’s likely to change Friday. In tonight’s video, Corey talks expected move for tomorrow, strong stocks making new highs, and as always the critical ‘edge of the cliff’ price level in play tomorrow ahead of a likely high volatility trending event.

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Support Bounce in Play but Will it Last?

Volatility picked up big time last week with the price sell-off but today’s action continued the bounce off 2983 Gravity. Is this it? And which stocks made new all-time highs today? It’s the typical list of strong stocks plus a couple surprises. In tonight’s video, we check on financials (XLF), strong tech stocks (AAPL and AMZN), the VIX, and of course key price levels as targets in focus.

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Wild Range Indicative of a Wild Market?

The S&P had a 144 point range today while the expected move for the week is 125. XLF and technology participating in the rally. The S&P rallied and closed above the volatility box. However, the XLF is still below the crucial 26.50 level and volatility hasn’t backed off. We are still in a Vomma Zone! Here’s what to expect…

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Feeling the Wrath of Volatility

Outliers leading to more outlier events! Weekly percentage Moves SPX Expected Move–last week– 78.38 (expected move)–next week– 125.77 VVIX was the preeminent indicator, yep we warned you Back in the Hurt Locker! aka: The Volaility Box Bonds UP, market tanked! market musical chairs, music stopped… you find a seat? Tech will be the epicenter of ANY big sell-off–XLF, XLE–Monster of Tech–consumer staples– WMT, COST Apple is my new Boeing – if the DOW has issues AAPL has issues. Looloo – LULU ! Keep your Helmets ON!

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Markets Snap Back Hard to Gravity

Don made a specific point to highlight the quiet yet aggressive buying activity in bonds – along with the VIX Volatility Index – that showed us that something big was moving behind the scenes.  Today, we realize now what that was.  Stocks across the board – in fact all 500 S&P 500 index components – were negative today with most losing over 5%.  It was a dramatic down-trend day and took us from soaring heights all the way back near Don’s 2,893 Gravity Point which is where we’ll begin Friday’s session.

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Don Kaufman Don Kaufman

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

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