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Second Wave of Selling?

Ranges are a rockin’

Volatility Speaks

SPX options have daily expirations this week

Sector Rotations and Expected Moves
–XLF, IWM, QQQ, XLE, XLV

Big Tech still outperforming

FB damaged goods

NKE bombed how bout LULU

SPX Expected Move
–last week– 112.76 (expected move)
–next week– 101.00

Forward look
–know the calendar
–watch the wild ranges
–gravity points coming back in play

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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