Markets Trading Like Clockwork? Here’s the Next Edge
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Don here...
Thursday morning. The S&P 500 opened exactly where it was supposed to. Not kind of close. Not in the ballpark. Exactly on the upper edge of the expected move.
This is the fourth week in a row we've hit either the upper or lower edge with what I can only call fierce consistency. When that happens, the trade becomes simple. Price mellows out. It ebbs and flows directly on that line. A few points of freedom on either side, but that's it.
The chicken's done.
In today's Live Trading Room session replay, you'll see:
- The Bank of America spread coming back from the dead. We were down on this position. No delusions of grandeur. But now we're only 40 cents from being in the money with two days left. The spread is down just 26% after being underwater for days. Probability of touching for breakeven: nearly 70%. Full profitability at 49.50: about 40% chance. This is what structured trades let you do. Hold through the pain because the math is on your side.
- Why we closed the Nvidia trade at 150-300% returns. We bought calls at $1.47, closed half at $2.30, and I got out of my last one at $3.90. The percentage gains were massive in a short window. But I told everyone: get out if you've got them. The marketplace was up but volatility was actually higher. That's a warning sign of two-sided trade coming. Order flow matters more than charts on an intraday basis.
- The roll decision we're NOT making on Bank of America. Could we sell this spread and move it further in time? Yes. But B of A earnings hit on the 15th. Where would you roll it to, cowboy? You can't. I don't deal in and around earnings. You take a nice structured trade and throw it to become a gamble at that point. So we have today and tomorrow. We need sell-side activity. We could close right now and take a 30-35% loss, but we're holding.
- How to read order flow when markets reverse. The moment Nvidia started pulling back, I looked at one thing: calls traded at the bid or below versus calls traded at the ask or above. The number of calls being sold started exceeding calls being bought. People were bailing. Same thing in Tesla. This is the driver of the marketplace. You can look at charts until you're blue in the face, but on an intraday basis, order flow is what matters.
The transparency in order flow has never been better. This tool is helping a tremendous amount even in off times. When you see the advanced decline line starting to correlate with sell-side activity, when you see rotations beginning, that's your signal.
We're down on gold. Getting killed actually. But remind yourself: Home Depot. We were wrong every single day except one. And that one took us back to profitability.
Take what the defense gives you. Learn to hold stuff. That's what you're in here for. That's what these spreads let you do.
→ Watch the full Live Trading Room session to see how we manage spreads through expiration week
To your success,
Don Kaufman
Chief Market Strategist, TheoTRADE
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