How Big Money “Tricks” You

Hey traders,I have a friend that we’ll call…MichaelMichael is a great friend and an all around great guy.In fact, he is one of the funniest people I have ever met.If I was going to say he has one defect it is this:He always has an ulterior motive.“That place stinks…we should go to this Bar” (The…

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Check Out This Profitable Trade

Hey traders! Palantir Technologies had some negative news around its IPO… which essentially bombed. PLTR, since it began trading has seen a TON of action… … It’s one of the more popular stocks on Robinhood right now and is seeing a TON of buying in the retail space. Looking at the options, there seems to…

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Navy Seals Are Bullish

Hey traders! Look, when US Navy Seals killed Osama Bin Laden futures immediately…popped.  You might recall this happened on a Monday after the market had closed…in the middle of a bear market (May of 2011 we were in the middle of a pretty rough patch). While the initial reaction of many retail traders was “Do…

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Finding a Bottom?

Hey there traders, Since the beginning of September we have seen two consistent trends: Pressure on the S&P 500… and pressure on volatility futures. Even in the face of sell offs, volatility futures have had trouble gaining any traction. Look at this chart: On the month for the SPY and the VXX (VXX is a…

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Buy The Market Now?

Over the last few months one of the major ‘talking points’ that I have discussed on TV has been the crazy out performance of the NASDAQ-100… This is the Index behind the QQQ. Since the bottom of the market in April, the NDX has vastly outperformed the S&P 500, and even more so the Dow…

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Symmetry In The VIX Means One Thing

Last week everyone made notice of one thing: The market was down. The smarter traders noticed something else: the VIX was down. Generally when the market is down and the VIX is down at the same time, that tends to be bullish. However,  things are a little different this time around.   Why? Because we just…

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I Love Following Order Flow

Hey friend! Being married to Big Blonde Hair has its upside, namely I know all about what is working in retail.   This is part of the reason I love following order flow in some of the retail names. If you haven’t heard of Tapestry Inc, you have certainly heard of their brands:  Coach,  Kate Spade, …

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Clear Sign Of Crazy

Today was the clearest sign yet that something is going crazy in the stock market… On a day the S&P 500 was down a whopping 7 points and the NDX (the NASDAQ 100) was up over 100 points, the VIX was up over 3 points!!!   VIX should be flat, marginally up, or even down under…

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There’s A Problem With AAPL

On Monday AAPL begins trading with its new post split price of 125 dollars a  share. This will affect more than just the stock holdings of AAPL shareholders. For instance, in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, AAPL will fall from the biggest component of the index, to about the 17th biggest. This is important for…

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