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Will Selling in Financials Take Markets Lower?

Stocks rally on the backs of AAPL and Tesla as money rotated out of financials into big tech. An important FOMC announcement is on Wednesday here are the opportunities we will be looking at this 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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