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Will Fragile Markets Fold Under FED Taper Talk?

Market Breakdown–
–All time high to breakdown and back
–Intraday Ranges/Realized vol explodes
–Bonds on the back burner
–Call volume explodes as retail fights back
–Oil indicative of the economy to come?
–Dollar on the verge of breakout
–China

Big Price Action–
–financials
–energy
–tech holding it together
–MSFT, NVDA — gamma gone wild

FED–
–loud and clear, we have taper talk
–Jackson Hole

SPX weekly EM vs one day movement

SPX Expected Move
–last week EM– 49.97
–next week– 67.73 expected 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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