Nasdaq, Russell and 30-YR Bond Volatility

We had the 30-Year Bond futures giving us an early heads up of increasing volatility in the indices. In this video, we’ll evaluate whether that information proved to be useful in trading volatility on the indices.

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TSLA, RTY and YM Trades

We’ll do a quick update to our TSLA Broken Wing Butterfly trade, along with discuss two futures trades in the Russell and DOW markets.

Starting off with the TSLA broken wing butterfly, we were looking for a pin near the $550 price point, and had built a 530/550/560 broken wing butterfly for $1.55. Today, that same butterfly is currently selling for ~$3.90.

To manage the trade, I’d be looking at a pullback here in TSLA, which would actually be healthy, and help erode some of the theta premium

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Pre-Election Volatility in Index Markets

With the election right around the corner, we’ve had a good amount of volatility enter our 4 major index markets.

In today’s video, we’ll break down the trade setups that we had in the S&P, Nasdaq, DOW and Russell futures markets. If you don’t trade the full size futures, you can also use the micro-futures equivalents, or even the ETF options.

With today’s chop, we had the S&P and DOW really chopping back and forth in between our Futures Volatility Box entry lines.

We triggered both long an

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Hourly and Daily Volatility Levels – SPY, QQQ, DIA, IWM

As volatility traders, the 2020 election has led to an increase in not only volatility, but also trade opportunities in many of the major markets.

In today’s video, we’ll contrast our Hourly Volatility Box levels with the Daily Volatility Box levels in the 4 major indices. We’ll take a look at ES vs. SPY, NQ vs. QQQ, DIA vs. YM, and IWM vs. RTY.

We’ll also highlight the “Likely Trending Down” heads up that we received with the Cumulative TICK Pro indicator, and how to trade using market inte

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Stimulus Volatility – Futures and Stock Trades

We had stimulus volatility act as a catalyst, leading to some nice trade setups in both futures and stocks.

In today’s video, we’ll cover trades in the 4 major index market futures, along with some stock setups in Pinterest (PINS), FarFetch (FTCH), Baidu (BIDU) and DOW Inc. (DOW).

The first half of the video will focus on the indices trades, where similar to this week, we had 3 winners and 1 loser. We had some nice gains in the /ES, /YM and /RTY futures, while the /NQ was a loser.

With sto

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Day Trading Futures Volatility – ES, NQ, YM, RTY

We had two different trade setups trigger today, in our 4 major indices markets. With elections coming closer, volatility has been creeping back into the index markets.

Our first setup was based on the market internals, specifically the Cumulative TICK. We had our Cumulative TICK Pro indicator alert us that we should expect a trending up market by 7am PT, 30 minutes after the market open.

Using that information, the SPY 345 Call was worth $2.00 at the point of entry, and close to ~$3.19 at it

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