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The Volatility Beast Rises

— China economic contagion

— watch vol crush in rallies

— tech is down but not out

— volatility backwardation is close

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— a rally in bonds?

— economic slowdown? oil takes a hit

Get your trade on– This week’s Profits and Losses

-Closed /MES calls 50% gain

-Closed UAL in/out spread 55% gain

-Opened new IPS /ES, /MES, and SPY

-Opened short puts in /ZB

-Opened Catapult in GOOGL vs /ES

SPX Expected Move–

~~-last week-~~ 65.75 (expected move 5 day week)

~~-next week-~~ 79.28 (expected move 5 day week)

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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