Good Morning! On the eve of a US government shutdown, equities are shrugging it off, advancing just .26%. As stated yesterday, government shutdowns do not typically have a major market impact. But as I also noted, it seems Republicans are not so interested in preventing a

Good Morning! The government shut down last night, but markets rallied .4% to close the day. The premarket retraces all of yesterday’s gains from the shutdown, but as stated before, the shutdown rarely has a major market impact. One thing to note, the Friday event vol has

Good Morning! Markets shrugged off a shutdown and rallied hard past 6700, resulting in a .3% increase. Yesterday I mentioned the possibility of a 6700 breakout, but I didn’t think it would happen yesterday. I thought it would possibly happen next week as the shutdown news would

Good Morning! A whipsaw-type day resulting in flat markets. Without the Jobless Claims report and the NFP report, we have no catalysts to move markets. We also don’t have a clear picture of how the labor market is faring. The Fed has their own internal metrics at each of their

Good Morning! Friday, we skipped a jobs report, but the market continued to march along, closing flat. Without economic data catalysts, the market should have very little event vol priced into it. It also puts a heavier burden on the FOMC at the end of this month, which

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Good Morning! A deal between OpenAI and AMD lifted stocks another .4% The market threatened the breakout level of 6750, but ended up falling short to 6740. There are very few scheduled catalysts, so the market theoretically should be flat into opex from a fundamental standpoint.

Good Morning! A quick dip that bounced off 6700. The final result was a .4% drawdown. Dark Matter and I on our Monday show talked about 6750 as a pivotal upside target, where if it were passed, we could see a rapid breakout to the upside. Instead, it acted as resistance and the

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Good Morning! The whipsaw continued as we closed down .3%. I said in the beginning of the week that vol seemed very expensive, particularly on the higher tenors. We are currently looking at a 17 VIX, which implies a 1% day once every 3 days. However, close to close, we haven’t

Good morning! Friday was a crazy day as SPX plunged 2.75%. The day started off calm, but a tweet about Trump lashing out at China sparked a major drop. As said on Friday in this daily newsletter, the market structures made a dramatic turn. There has been a lot of premium selling

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