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Will the Bears Make a Year End Appearance?

Change of tone in the markets ???
–COST & LULU
–Financials came off with energy
–still playing the shell game
–Brexit, jobless

Volatility Expansion
–/VX, VIX & VVIX
–weekly expected moves

IPO’s have gone plaid–
–ABNB & DASH

Don’s Positions and Delta Risk

SPX Expected Move
–last week– 64.56 (expected move)
–next week– 85.99

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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