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

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Once again the QQQ is bumping up against the expected move for the week. Here are the types of trades Don is looking at to take advantage of the impending move…

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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