🚨 Something’s seriously wrong with this market. The Fed cut rates yesterday… and interest rates went HIGHER. 84 million option contracts traded today – a NEW RECORD – and the market barely flinched. Meanwhile, volatility futures finished higher while the S&P hit new highs. Dogs and cats living together, people. After 15 years at thinkorswim and TD Ameritrade, I know when something stinks. Right now? This whole setup reeks. ⚡ TODAY’S KEY REVELATIONS: • Why the SPX ($6,664 product) traded 4 million contracts while Apple looks like a “pimple” • Home builders got their rate cut… then closed at LOWER edge of expected move • The shocking reason next week’s volatility just dropped to “rock bottom” (VIX under 11) • Why I’m telling you: DON’T sell short-dated options – you’ll get killed

Blake breaks down the post-Fed market action that has everyone else celebrating while he’s positioning for what’s really developing beneath the surface. 🔥 KEY HIGHLIGHTS: • Why the tech breakout to new highs might be a knee-jerk reaction • The UK rate vote shift that changes everything about global easing • Copper’s breakdown signaling economic weakness, not growth • NextEra utility setup targeting $7 move (10% + dividends) • Gold pullback creating last reasonable entry before 3800-3900 targets • Triple witching Friday volatility warning ⚠️ CONTRARIAN POSITIONING: While everyone’s buying the rate cut rally, Blake explains why cross-asset signals are screaming stagflation setup instead of growth recovery. IEF bond analysis, copper’s 5% breakdown risk, and why utilities are the real opportunity. 📊 SPECIFIC LEVELS COVERED: Copper breakdown: 23 cents lower NextEra target: $77 Crude key level: $65 This isn’t about following the crowd into obvious trades. It’s about positioning for

Fed cut 25 basis points. Market’s unchanged for the week. Everyone thinks the risk is over. They’re wrong. We’re sitting on TRILLIONS in options expiring Friday – the largest expiration in market history happening during a Fed week. The market had a $94 expected move, we haven’t moved, and they’re STILL pricing in $74 of movement. 🚨 CRITICAL TIMING WINDOWS: • Thursday: $51 expected move (Fed fallout they pushed out) • Friday AM/PM: Triple witching during Fed week = “dislocations of risk” • Advanced decline line showing 65 advancers while S&P down 50 points What most people don’t understand: Just 2 stocks (NVIDIA & Broadcom) can now pull the entire market under. Financials up 1% and it doesn’t even matter anymore. When gamma risk grows “parabolic” into Friday expiration, market makers HAVE to hedge massive directional risk. Translation: “Big waves are gonna hit in the next 24-48 hours.” ⚡️ COVERED

All anyone can talk about is the Fed meeting tomorrow… … except Gianni. He’s spotted a massive rotation happening right under the market’s nose… …one that a Fed rate cut is set to accelerate. You see, Chinese tech stocks are exploding higher, and the setup looks identical to US stocks breaking out of the April bottom. Here’s what’s happening right now: Baidu surged 8.5% today (another Trinity Trade position) Trip.com is closing at its highest level in history CQQQ ETF breaking out of multi-year consolidation pattern Tesla hitting Gianni’s exact 425 target after his call option alert The Fed’s rate cut tomorrow is the accelerant. When US rates drop, institutional money hunts for yield abroad.  China’s DeepSeek proved they’re legitimate AI players, not just manufacturers. Gianni’s been positioning for this rotation for months.  While traders chase Nvidia and Microsoft to new highs, he’s backing up the cyber truck on Chinese

Something’s not adding up… The VIX jumped 6.71% today. Yet, the S&P 500 kissed all-time highs.  That’s not supposed to happen when everyone “knows” what the Fed will do on Wednesday. Everyone thinks we have a “guaranteed” quarter-point rate cut on Wednesday.  I mean, the Fed Watch Tool shows a 96% probability.  Plus, markets have been rallying since But here’s where it gets interesting: Only 185 stocks advanced while 314 declined in the S&P 500 Google up 4%, Tesla up 3%, but breadth was terrible Gold surged 1% despite rate cuts being “fully priced in” Dollar weakened significantly ahead of a known event VIX jumped from 14.76 to 15.75 when it should be falling We entered this week with an expected move of just 93 points. Brandon and the team immediately flagged that as suspiciously low for a Fed week. The VIX spike today confirms their instincts were right. Brandon’s

We’re staring down what appears to be the single largest options expiration in the history of the business…  …A multi-trillion dollar expiration cycle that’s about to dislocate the entire marketplace. Yes, it’s time for triple witching again! What’s that you say? You’ve lived through triple witching before? Not like this, you haven’t. The September SPX AM settlement is carrying unprecedented open interest, with tens of thousands of contracts at key strikes, such as the 6500 level.  Let me put that in real terms for you. When you’re dealing with a $6,500 product, 50,000 contracts means a hell of a lot more than it did when the SPX was trading at $4,000 just a few years ago. The concentration is staggering.  Just five products are absorbing almost all the market’s firepower: Tesla alone traded 6 million option contracts yesterday SPY matched that with another 6 million SPX added 3 million more

Forget chasing the S&P at all-time highs. I’ve got something WAY better. Blake just laid out how to collect steady cash while positioning for the next big swing in financials. JP Morgan just ripped to new 52-week highs, and Blake’s eyeing a “V-type reversal” that could carry it from $291 to $315 — an 11% move.  But instead of gambling on the breakout, here’s the smarter angle: Sell the October 17th $300 puts Collect $7.50 per contract (3.27% return on risk) Only a 40% chance you’re assigned If you are, your cost basis drops to $292.50 — a 5% cushion That means you’re literally getting paid $750 just to wait for a dip in one of the strongest banks on the street. Blake’s also spotting similar setups in KRE (regional banks) and sees more upside targets on the S&P (665–666) while bonds flash a “fake-out” before the Fed meeting.

Don here… Institutional money just made their loudest volatility bet in months. Most traders won’t even see it coming. What has me on high alert?  The VVIX (volatility of volatility) just surged nearly 10% today! Over 1 million VIX contracts traded today (extreme volume) Heavy call buying in VIX options across the board Market internals absolutely terrible: only 35 advancers vs 67 decliners in the S&P Expected move for tomorrow’s CPI jumped from the 30s to $44 in a single day The setup is getting dangerous fast.  We’re seeing massive concentration risk with just a handful of AI stocks propping up the entire market.  NVIDIA alone is worth more than 300 other S&P companies combined at $4.3 trillion market cap. Yet, volatility is rising with one day left to expiration.  Options don’t usually add value this close to expiry unless something big is brewing. CPI drops tomorrow at 8:30 AM

The numbers were fake. Like, really fake. Hundreds of thousands of jobs that supposedly existed over the last several months?  Never existed. “Well beyond the margin of error and entering into the territory of fraud,” as I put it on Tuesday. While everyone’s arguing about whether the Fed cuts 25 or 50 basis points next Wednesday, I’m watching something bigger unfold. The jobs revision isn’t just embarrassing – it’s revealing the exact scenario I’ve been positioning for all year. The risk was never inflation this year. The risk was always unemployment. Here’s what’s happening while the market digests this bombshell: China tech is absolutely smoking US tech right now – and I’ll show you why DeepSeek changed everything • The semiconductor leadership rotation that’s creating massive opportunities (we’ve been riding Arteris Labs since July) • Why precious metals just hit my upside targets… and what that means for the next

Boy, what’s about to happen in the market? I mean, is the CPI that comes out this Thursday about to derail the two biggest bullish trades in the market currently? Here’s the thing… everyone’s piling into gold and bonds right now. Gold’s outperforming every sector. TLT’s breaking out. The dollar’s weakening 1% against gold while the S&P sits flat. But here’s what 95% of people are missing about Thursday’s CPI print… We’re already expecting 0.3% core inflation – that’s above the Fed’s 2% target when annualized. The year-over-year number? Supposed to hit 2.9%. And the Fed’s signaling they’re willing to accept this “above trend inflation” because of job market concerns. But what if that number comes in significantly hotter than expectations? I’m seeing some serious action in the options market that tells a different story than what everyone’s positioning for: 14,000 TLT put contracts traded at the 88 strike (this