Want to know what the market is thinking? Here’s the one number that can reveal exactly what the market thinks is going to happen. It’s called the VIX Zone. As a quick refresher, the CBOE Volatility Index (or “VIX”) is...

We’ve been talking a lot about gamma this week. For good reason, I might add. When people lose money, it’s almost exclusively because of their gamma exposure. What’s terrifying is that most people have this kind of exposure in their...

When people lose money, it’s almost exclusively because of their gamma exposure. And when a Gamma Bomb explodes, it can blow up entire fortunes. You can think of it as the ultimate Black Swan…  An extremely rare market event where...

Have you ever watched kids explode a watermelon?  It became a popular “science” activity back when everyone was staying home during Covid, and a quick search pulls up dozens of youtube videos. The videos are pretty much all the same....

There’s a serious market risk many investors don’t know about… And it’s hiding in some of the biggest index funds out there… and possibly in your own portfolio. But you likely won’t see it, nor even think about it, until...

We have a wild week in store for all options traders – and one massive opportunity in AMZN that we haven’t seen in a year… This Friday is expiration Friday – the date many options expire – so volatility is...

Around here, we like to focus on Big Money Flow. Why? Because it’s the driver of all things. Volume is the key to the market… especially this market. And that’s why I take time every day to go through the...

I’ve been quiet while on vacation. When traveling, I prefer to have no trades open (or very few) so I can enjoy what is going on. As Mark says, “Why let the vacation cost twice as much?” He and I...

The newest volatility indicator just dropped yesterday, Monday, April 24. Although it is not intended to replace the VIX, VIX1D has its own unique value as an independent measure of daily market sentiment. VIX1D will be an insanely useful tool...

The big news coming from earnings this week is in the banking sector.  That may come as a surprise… considering we’ve been talking about a possible collapse in the sector since Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) went under on March 10...