[video_player type=”embed” style=”1″ dimensions=”640×360″ width=”640″ height=”360″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″ ipad_color=”black”][/video_player] Don here… I just finished our Friday session, and I’ve got to tell you…something big is shifting right under everyone’s nose. While most traders were celebrating another week of “massively unchanged” action in the S&P, I was watching something that made my skin crawl as a professional trader. The VVIX just rose from the ashes. For those who don’t know, the VVIX measures volatility in VIX options. And when professionals start hedging this heavily, they’re not just being cautious…They’re preparing for something serious. Here’s what caught my attention today: The S&P dropped 44 handles in the first 30 minutes, then went completely dead for the rest of the session.  Normal Friday action, right? Wrong! Throughout the entire day, volatility hedges kept getting placed. Not just during the morning selloff.  All…day…long.  That’s professionals positioning for trouble while everyone else is looking

GDP beats expectations at 3.3% while two key sectors are setting up for explosive moves Blake Young breaks down why the AI bubble is FAR from over and reveals a second opportunity most traders are missing entirely – metals and mining stocks sitting on 10%+ breakouts. What You’ll Learn: – Why Nvidia’s “disappointing” earnings actually confirm the AI trend is accelerating – The specific AI stocks positioned for 15%+ moves (DDOG, NET, CRM breakdowns inside) – How record gold prices are creating a profit bonanza for mining companies – 4 metals/mining stocks Blake is targeting for 8-20% gains (Newmont, Freeport, Nucor, STLD) – The GDP data that’s fueling demand in basic materials

Watch Don Kaufman’s real-time reaction as Nvidia earnings drop and instantly wipe $300 billion in market cap—equivalent to Boeing’s entire value. Don breaks down the mind-blowing math: a $12 move in NVDA equals 288 billion in market shifts for this $4.4 trillion monster. What makes this fascinating: Don reveals why he’s completely ignoring the actual earnings numbers and instead focusing on something far more telling—the 3 million option contracts and billions in liquidity that predicted this exact move. While markets have been eerily unchanged all week despite pricing in an $82 expected move, this earnings reaction becomes the catalyst that finally breaks the stalemate. Don exposes the hidden volatility signals most traders miss: VVX creeping up while VIX stays deceptively low at 15, and volatility futures already pricing a spike to 19+ just 56 days out. With September—the most volatile month—just days away and critical jobs data tomorrow that could

Chinese markets are setting up for MASSIVE moves while US investors aren’t paying attention. In this video I break down: – Why Chinese stocks can double when US markets can’t – My positions in Alibaba, Tesla, and XPeng – The dollar weakness creating perfect conditions – Why calling China “emerging” is irresponsible Plus my Freeze Point Strategy that’s beaten the S&P by 400% over 5 years. Don’t sleep on international opportunities – rate cuts are coming and liquidity is about to explode globally.

Timing market tops is tough… but ignoring warning signs can be costly. In this video, Brandon Chapman breaks down the bearish volatility signal that just flashed and what it could mean for stocks in the days ahead. Instead of trying to “call the top,” Brandon shows you how to: ✅ Take profits without abandoning positions ✅ Hedge your equity portfolio before volatility spikes ✅ Trade volatility itself to turn risk into opportunity Here’s the signal that just hit — and one strategy to prepare for the storm brewing on the horizon.

Don Kaufman breaks down why Friday’s 100-point S&P rally was basically “massively unchanged” for the week—and why that should terrify you. The market might be flirting with all-time highs, but Don spotted something that has him buying volatility heading into next week: Meta got “the living crap kicked out of it” this week The NASDAQ finished LOWER despite the Jackson Hole pop VIX collapsed to 14—the lowest levels of 2025 in late August The S&P is trapped in a 200-point “volatility box” for almost 2 months But here’s the kicker: NVIDIA earnings hit Wednesday with only a $13 expected move priced in. Don calls this “the one catalyst that could rock them all.”

Manufacturing PMI just hit 53. Services PMI climbed too. Both above 50. Both showing expansion and growth. Sounds bullish, right? Here’s what the numbers aren’t telling you… Factories are getting squeezed. Hard. Input prices are rising faster than output prices. That means manufacturers are eating inflation instead of passing it through to consumers. They’re literally giving away their margins to keep demand strong. Here’s why this matters for your trades: While industrials struggle with compressed margins, someone else is making a killing. Basic materials companies. The ones selling TO the factories. Look at today’s action: XLB (basic materials) up. XLI (industrials) down. That’s not a coincidence.  That’s the margin transfer in real time. I’m seeing 15-20% opportunities in companies positioned on the right side of this squeeze: Newmont just hit a 52-week high (gold miners with peak margins) • Freeport threatening breakout to $48 (20% upside from here) • PKG

Don Kaufman here.  We rallied from 6362 all the way back to 6422 today. Sounds good, right? Dip buyers showing up, market resilience, all that happy talk. Here’s what actually happened… I’ve been watching this market get boxed into the same 200-point range since late June. 6250 to 6450. That’s it. We’ve been ping-ponging inside this volatility box for seven weeks. Today we touched the bottom of that box and bounced. But here’s the kicker – when we briefly broke above 6450 a few weeks back, we didn’t explode higher like we should have. We just… drifted. That’s not how breakouts work when they’re real. Right now, we’re sitting at 6411. Close to that 6450 ceiling again. If we break above it and hold? Like a door swinging wide open to the upside. But I’m watching something else entirely… The advance-decline line was positive today while the S&P was down

Hey there, Gianni Di Poce here.  While everyone’s freaking out about tech getting hammered today (Nvidia down 3%, semiconductors bleeding), I’m seeing something completely different in the tape. Here’s what caught my attention: Healthcare just became the best performing sector over the last 30 days. That’s not a celebration – that’s a warning sign. When defensive sectors start leading, the market’s telling you something. But here’s the kicker – I just spotted one of the most dismal sentiment readings in crude oil that we’ve seen in over a decade. You know what that usually means? Contrarian opportunity. And then there’s this little signal that most traders completely miss: pot stocks just had a big pop. Sounds random, right? It’s not. This usually signals volatility is about to creep back into the market. It’s like the market’s way of saying “buckle up.” Meanwhile, Shanghai’s hitting 10-year highs while US tech sells

The options market just dropped a bomb. While Bitcoin sits in its comfort zone around $61k, someone just bought 40,000 put contracts in a single trade. That’s $2.4 million betting Bitcoin breaks down. But here’s the part that really caught my attention… The VIX futures are pricing volatility 23% higher than the current VIX. The market is screaming that something big is coming in the next 30 days. And when I pulled up the RSI divergence pattern on Bitcoin? It’s the exact same setup we saw before the 30% crash from $70k to $43k. Gold’s telling a different story though. Massive institutional positioning suggests they’re betting on volatility in both directions – down by November, potentially way up by December. The Ghost Prints Console caught all of this in real-time. 10,000 gold contracts sold at the $330 calls, 10,000 puts bought at $297. Someone’s positioning for a major breakout either