You'd Have to Be Insane to Think Jensen Huang Won't Respond
Hey, it’s Garrett. NVIDIA's down 1.4% this morning while AMD just exploded 35% higher. OpenAI took a 10% stake in AMD. Multi-gigawatt chip purchases. Hardware lock-in. The AI arms race just shifted in real-time. And while everyone's asking if NVIDIA's dominance is over, I'm sitting here in my new house in Maryland - workers already…
When Your Position Talks, Listen
Don Kaufman here. My volatility trade should be printing money right now. It's not. When your position talks to you like that, you better listen. I've got a volatility structure position on that should be humming along nicely with the S&P at all-time highs. Instead, volatility is sustaining itself and creeping higher. The position that…
Healthy Rotation or a Warning Sign?
Hello TheoTrader, Stocks hit a new all-time high last week. Underneath the surface, there was a bit of ducking and covering. The big picture hasn't changed. Bulls are still running the tape. The question remains whether enough new all-time highs have accumulated to finally convince the skeptics. Once again, we face the key question of…
Monday, October 6, 2025 - Tony's Pre-Market Playbook
Bulls Push Higher to Start the Weekby Tony Rago Fresh week, fresh setups. Bulls defended the weekly opens overnight and pushed NQ into a new high. Next stop is the open target at 25,250, as long as 25,106 holds. On ES, bulls need to convert 6,788 into support to set up another high. Over…
Giving a Hoot About Your Problems
I love nature. I love making analogies about nature. Our neighbor had a small bird problem—and by "small bird problem," I mean both that the problem was small and the birds themselves were small. Hundreds upon hundreds of birds had taken up residence in the trees lining the sidewalk in front of their house. We…
The Hidden Force Behind Stock Explosions
Rigetti Computing tripled in weeks. D-Wave Quantum shot up triple digits. American Eagle Outfitters exploded higher on a jeans ad. Kohl's suddenly became interesting again. What do quantum computing companies have in common with retail apparel stocks? Nothing…Except the one thing that actually matters. The Real Driver Wall Street Won't Tell You Forget the story…Forget…
What Free-Falling at 120 MPH Taught Me About Markets
Hello TheoTrader, 6,300 jumps. That's how many times I threw myself out of an airplane with a camera strapped to my head, free-falling at 120 miles per hour to capture someone else's once-in-a-lifetime moment. Some people heard that number and thought I was crazy. But here's what they didn't understand: by jump 6,000, it wasn't…
My 13-year-old is my secret weapon for testing trading monitors
Don Kaufman here. I literally bought four different monitors on Amazon. Just one of each. Opened them up in my Arizona mountain house and let my kid loose on them. "This KTC thing absolutely smokes your old monitor, Dad." When a 13-year-old who plays Fortnite on a multi-monitor setup tells you a $97 monitor destroys…
Why 50 College Kids Expose Your Trading Problem
I'm staring at 50 undergraduates this semester at Loyola. Teaching Corporate Finance Essentials. The academics? That's the easy part. The real challenge hits me every class: these kids are conditioned for failure. Entitled mindset. Immature responses. Deer in the headlights when real work shows up. They've spent 18 years building habits that will destroy their…
Healthcare Gets Resuscitated, but This Matters More…
Hello TheoTrader, The second-largest sector of the S&P 500 came back to life last week. If you didn’t know already, that sector is healthcare. It’s effectively been on life-support since the April lows, and it’s not surprising when you consider so many of the negative headlines circulating within the industry. But is this turning out…