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Options Trading Mid-Week Update: Wild Fed Event, Road Map Ahead


It’s extremely critical to take a step back and make sense of the mamba market during these wild, explosive bounces in an overall bearish market. The market is at a critical point inside of the Ichimoku Cloud on the weekly chart of the S&P 500 (/ES), showing a warning sign that bulls are trying to take control. In this video, we’ll lay out the road map going forward with the big trading events this week, talking through reversions to the mean, identifying key zones/liquidity levels, and reviewing setups on $SNOW, $SHOP, and $GOOGL.

Options Trading Watch List: Bearish Daily Squeezes Ready to Fire? (TTM Squeeze Setup)


Happy Sunday, traders! Focusing on short positions has served us well over the last month or so, but we are still looking for another new low. Will these bearish daily squeezes in the indexes fire short and get the job done? Let’s dive in!

CURRENT OPEN POSITIONS:

  • $EOG put credit spread
  • $DVN put credit spread
  • $IWM call credit spread
  • $INTC call credit spread

Options Trading Mid-Week Update: CPI Ahead, More Pop or Drop?


Let’s dive in and discuss this volatile market and hopefully give you some clarity for the rest of the week. First we have the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Thursday, March 10th at 8:30am that could be a catalyst and move the market. This economic event will be a big gauge of inflation and how much more consumers are paying for products. After a flush earlier in the week, the S&P 500 (ES) popped on Wednesday and further showed the whipsaw market we are in… so let’s discuss how to navigate this environment moving forward.

KEY LEVELS for Bulls and Bears! – Options Trading Watch List


After a big short covering rally last week, there’s some key levels of resistance ahead to keep an eye on! Whether we can break above these levels or not will likely set the tone for the markets next move. Let’s dive in! If you think the market has put in a long term bottom, let me know why/what you’re seeing!

Options Trading Mid-Week Update: January Lows… Sell the Bounce?


We’re back at the January lows, which is reassuring the downtrending move we’ve been watching. We’re seeing sell signals across the board on multiple names, with the major indexes like the /ES not yet firing its weekly squeeze and the /NQ only 2 weeks into its squeezes. Typically we look for 5-8 weeks of momentum, so we still have the path of least resistance to the downside… Meaning our mentality is still to sell any potential bounces.

Stay Focused!

Options Trading Mid-Week Update: Volatile OPEX and Earnings Week


There are a few key catalysts, setups, and levels that I’m watching this week that could affect the overall market. We have some of the last few big names reporting earnings, and we’ll take a look at some that reported on Wednesday (Shopify, TheTradeDesk, Nvidia, Applied Materials). We had the Fed minutes released today, so we’re anticipating the last big economic event this week — Options Expiration.