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What Do Markets Say about the Election?

Risk into the Friday Bell!

Broken Brexit does not impact markets

Massively UNCHED on the WEEK
–pull back off the upper EM

Retail Sales
–AMZN drops on big sales

Heavy Earnings Week Coming
–TSLA, NFLX, INTC

Reading the Vol SKEW
–election risk growing?

Getting a read on risk-
–VVIX
–Dollar
–Bonds

SPX Expected Move
–last week– 71.91 (expected move)
–next week– 80.94

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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