Flat markets aren't safe. They're powder kegs.
The S&P 500 looks dead flat. Has for months. Everyone thinks that's boring. Safe. Nothing to worry about. They're sitting on a powder keg and don't even know it. Right now, we've got what I'm calling a "tsunami of gamma risk" building up under this sideways market. And when it finally lets loose, the moves…
The 3 contrarian trades I just dropped on Schwab (they're betting against the madness)
Just wrapped my segment on Schwab's Trading 360 and I had to tell viewers something that should terrify every trader: Zero-day options on four stocks are literally taking over the entire market. Google. Microsoft. Amazon. Tesla. That's it. That's your whole market now. When gamma risk on four names drives everything else, we're not…
The gamma revolution that's making traders irrelevant
Look, I'm gonna tell you something that's gonna piss you off. As of one week ago, you're living in a completely different trading world. And if you think whatever worked five or 10 years ago is gonna work today, I have news for you. You're about to become a ghost. Here's what nobody's figured out…
The $5 Trillion Market Manipulation Nobody's Talking About
When you can move a $5 trillion market cap, you can move the entire NASDAQ. It's pretty easy. NVIDIA just crossed $4.6 trillion in market cap – I round it to $5 trillion because what the hell, we're going there anyway. But here's what nobody's connecting: when one company gets that massive, it becomes the…
This rally is hiding something dangerous
Listen, I know everyone's celebrating the Dow's 900-point rally today, but something's making me genuinely uneasy about this market. And when I get uneasy, I start looking for ways to profit from what's coming next. Here's what I'm seeing that has me concerned — and how I'm actually trading it. The One Thing That Always…
The rotation has lost it's damn mind
Toll Brothers is up 11% this year. Apple is only up 1%. You're telling me Toll Brothers is better off than Apple? This is a home builder. With rates going up. Every home builder out there is like, "Yeah, with rates up like this, business sucks. Our margins absolutely suck. You should definitely not buy…
The 3 contrarian trades I just dropped on Schwab (hint: they're all bearish)
Just wrapped my segment on Schwab's Big 3 and something is seriously broken in this market. Here's what should terrify you: 70 stocks in the S&P 100 are trading higher today. Yet the S&P is down. That's not rotation. That's panic. Fund managers can't put money into the mega-cap tech that carried markets for two…
How to Read Market Rotations Before They Hit the Headlines
You know what I was going over this morning in TheoTrade Chatroom while drinking my second Monster Energy? Something that would have completely confused newer traders - but it's exactly how you spot major rotations before they become news. The S&P was selling off. Big tech getting crushed. But the advance/decline line? Getting better. Let…
I Just Made Bank on a Trade That Didn't Exist Last Week
Holy crap. I'm sitting here on this island with my old computer that keeps freezing up on me, watching the S&P futures cycle through a hundred-point range overnight, and I just executed something that's never been possible before. A Friday-to-Monday zero DTE butterfly. This didn't exist until this week. Like, literally couldn't be traded. And…
The Volatility Beast is Back (And It Looks P****d)
I got to tell you something. While everyone's celebrating the S&P hitting fresh all-time highs this week, I'm seeing warning signals that are making me want to hide under my desk and rock back and forth. The market finished "massively unchanged" after one of the wildest weeks we've had in months. But here's what nobody's…