Wall Street is celebrating a 16% year in the S P 500. Blake Young just proved that number is fiction. After adjusting for the dollar's 9.5% collapse against other currencies, your real return drops to 6%. And that's the generous calculation. Gold surged nearly 60% this year. If you use gold as your
Gianni just identified a critical inflection point that will determine the next several months of trading. His thesis is straightforward. If stocks don't start rallying by the end of next week, we're heading into a multi-month grind that will punish both bulls and bears. The market loves to frustrat
Someone just made a $14 million bet on a stock most traders have never heard of. Brandon spotted 60,000 call contracts hit Compass Inc. (COMP) in a single print today. Within two minutes, the stock ripped from $10.44 to $10.76 on an intraday gamma squeeze. The trade happened at 1:12 PM Eastern while
SLV, the silver ETF, just traded 2.7 million option contracts in a single session. For context, that's approaching Nvidia territory. On a holiday Friday with virtually no volume anywhere else. The bigger question isn't whether this trade ends badly. It will. No market cracks the expected move five w
We’ve got a half day of trading, keeping things quiet…or so you would think. Let me start by saying, the response to my 0DTE webinar was OVERWHELMING. I knew that trading 0DTE products was popular…but my word. For those of you who weren’t able to attend, you can check out a replay of the event
Gianni just flagged a critical divergence that could determine whether this rally has legs or is running on fumes. The S P 500 continuous contract just hit a new all time high. The cash index is on the verge of its highest daily close in history. Yet the NASDAQ has not made a new all time
Brandon just exposed a number most traders refuse to look at. The S P 500 in gold terms is now trading at April lows. Gold surged 2.2% today. The S P gained just 0.6%. That means in real purchasing power, the market lost ground. Brandon ran the ratio. At the start of the year, the S P traded
Bullish trades are costing 40-50% more than bearish ones in today's market. That is not a typo. I pulled up equivalent $4 wide spreads in SPY today. Same distance from the money. Same expiration. The call spread costs over a dollar more than the put spread. The reason is skew. And right now, skew is
Blake just uncovered something buried in today's inflation report that changes everything about how you should position for the rest of the year. The BLS released their "catch-up" CPI data for October and November. The problem is they only captured three categories out of the entire report. New vehi
