While most traders log off and wait for the next session, larger players are already building positions overnight — and what if you could interpret that activity to come into the next day with a clear directional bias instead of reacting at the open? → Discover The Edge

Market Strategies, What’s Working and What’s Not

Strategy Session
–Backspreads – outlier strats
–In/Out Spreads
–Duration Positions
–Buying Irons
–Calendar Spreads
–Long/Short

The Disconnect, asset pricing and main street
–Blame the FED?
–Blame the Qaunts!

Next major move will be about MAGNITUDE!
–high correlations

SPX Expected Move
–last week– 101 (expected move)
–actual move– 121.05
–next week– 80.50

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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09.00	Don Kaufman \| Pre-Market Prep \| FREE SESSION 09.20 09.30 Don Kaufman \| Early volatility 09.20 10.30
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14.00	Corey Rosenbloom \| Options tactics 14.00 15.00
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