Stop Chasing the Move After Everyone Else Sees It.
Don Kaufman shows traders how to use the options market's expected move to define risk and structure the opportunity before volatility hits. → See How It Works

Here Come the Sellers

Bears win the day as selling hits the market across the board. The SPX dropped to near it’s expected move for the week. Here’s how I did on the day…

Don Kaufman

Don Kaufman is options trader and educator. Former CBOE market maker, former Chief Derivatives Instructor at thinkorswim, and former Director of the Trader Group at TD Ameritrade. In 2015 he co-founded TheoTrade to teach traders how volatility, probability, and risk really work.

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	Today
09.00	Don Kaufman \| Pre-Market Prep \| FREE SESSION 09.20 09.30 Don Kaufman \| Early volatility 09.20 10.30
09.30
10.00
10.30	Jeff Bierman \| Market structure 10.30 11.30
11.00	Jeff Bierman \| Market structure 10.30 11.30
11.30	Brandon Chapman \| Ghost Hour 11.30 12.30
12.00	Brandon Chapman \| Ghost Hour 11.30 12.30
12.30	Gianni Di Poce \| Macro overview 12.30 13.15 Elizabeth \| Price Action 13.15 14.00
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13.30
14.00	Corey Rosenbloom \| Options tactics 14.00 15.00
14.30	Corey Rosenbloom \| Options tactics 14.00 15.00
15.00	Blake Young \| Market wrap 15.00 16.00
15.30	Blake Young \| Market wrap 15.00 16.00