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Markets enter a holiday-shortened Thanksgiving week reeling from a brutal 1.9% S&P 500 decline as the Fed’s hawkish pivot and volatile rate cut expectations—swinging from 30% to 72% probability within 48 hours—triggered the most aggressive hedging demand in three years with put/call skew reaching extreme levels and the VIX surging to 28 before settling at […]

Markets enter the most consequential week since April’s tariff-driven selloff as the 43-day government shutdown—the longest in U.S. history—finally ends, clearing the path for Thursday’s delayed September employment report and a flood of backlogged economic data releases. The S&P 500’s 2.4% gain during the shutdown period demonstrates remarkable market resilience, yet Wednesday’s Nvidia earnings carrying

I’ve been getting DMs asking why there have been fewer alerts than usual. The answer is simple: I’ll never send out an alert just to send one. My focus is quality over quantity. I’d rather do nothing half of the week and wait for a day that presents A+ setups than force mediocre trades just

Markets enter November riding a powerful 2.3% October gain as the S&P 500 approaches 40% appreciation from April lows, supported by historic earnings beats where 64% of reporting companies exceeded consensus estimates by at least one standard deviation—the highest frequency outside the COVID reopening period. The week unfolds against a complex backdrop where the Fed’s

Markets enter a critical inflation and earnings week with the S&P 500 rebounding 1.7% as President Trump’s dramatic pivot calling proposed 100% Chinese tariffs “not sustainable” reversed the previous week’s $1.5 trillion selloff, though hedge funds accelerated selling at the fastest pace since early April while US ETF shorts saw the largest percentage increase in

Markets enter a pivotal earnings week reeling from Friday’s worst single-day selloff since April that erased $1.5 trillion in market capitalization, driven by escalating US-China tensions as Trump announced 100% tariffs on Chinese goods effective November 1 following Beijing’s expansion of rare-earth export controls to 12 elements. The S&P 500’s 2.4% weekly decline coincided with

The federal government has been shut down for six days now, and here’s what’s fascinating: the stock market doesn’t seem to care. In fact, markets have hit multiple record highs since the shutdown began on October 1st. As options traders, let’s cut through the political noise and focus on what actually matters for our positions.

Markets enter a critical week with the S&P 500 achieving fresh all-time highs despite a six-day government shutdown that has delayed critical economic data including September’s jobs report, CPI, and retail sales, forcing traders to navigate with limited visibility while relying on private surveys and sentiment indicators. The 1.1% weekly gain extending the longest winning

Markets enter a critical inflection week as three consecutive days of losses threaten to become the longest losing streak since January, occurring against Bank of America strategist Savita Subramanian’s stark warning that the S&P 500 trades at expensive levels across 19 of 20 key metrics—with four hitting records—creating what she describes as the market “trading

The Federal Reserve’s 25 basis point rate cut last week has unleashed a powerful bullish wave across equity markets, delivering exactly what traders have been anticipating. The Fed lowered its benchmark rate to 4.00%-4.25% on September 17th, and the market response has been historic. Historic Market Achievement Thursday delivered an extraordinary milestone as all major