Most traders are glued to their screens chasing noise every single day.
Don Kaufman identified four predictable 40-day windows each year where the setup, the timing, and the exit are already mapped out.
His last cycle returned $659 per $1K invested. The next window opens soon.
Wednesday, October 29th at 2 PM EST, he's walking through the exact calendar-based system that lets you trade less and collect more.
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Don Kaufman is a permabear, which is rather ironic considering his Arizona bonafides.
I am an eternal optimist.
So, I take his doomsday prognostications with a grain of salt.
Friday was different.
His relationship tentacles that reach wide and deep into the finance industry kicked back something…troubling.
I won’t name names. HOWEVER, Don relayed worry percolating up through risk departments at various brokerages.
Apparently, volatility has them all aflutter, but not the way you might think.
Without getting gross detail, SKEW is up for back months (Dec & Jan)...a lot.
Essentially, traders are buying out-of-the-money options to protect themselves.
That’s pretty normal…just not to this magnitude.
You see, many traders sell options to generate income. And when you buy options, market makers are the ones to sell it to you.
That’s fine so long as things fall within a probability of outcomes that risk departments are prepared for.
It’s when things get too heavy that it becomes a problem.
Right now, you’ve got the greater fool action playing out as more and more people buy out-of-the-money options at higher and higher prices.
That means option sellers are losing money quickly on expirations that typically don’t move much beyond directional changes in the underlying asset.
Or to put it plainly, this madness rarely happens, if ever, and it’s causing serious plumbing problems.
I’m not smart or knowledgeable enough to know how it will end.
But I know I don’t want do try and stumble through this alone.
Fortunately, we’ve got the folks at TheoTRADE who know WHAT to look for and HOW to read it.
Jordan Schneir
Editorial Director, TheoTRADE
Don Kaufman: I Risk 60 Cents to Make $5
S&P's this morning opened up some 44 handles.
There's a few interesting things going on, and one of them made me do something that's probably going to make some of you lose your minds.
I put on a trade risking 60 cents to make $4 and change. XSP puts. Zero DTE. Low probability shot.
And before you start with the emails telling me I'm an idiot, let me explain something: I'm risking 60 freaking cents to be able to make $5. What the hell do I care what you think?
Here's the thing - if I go out and do this same trade four times, I only have to be profitable once.
You pay 60 cents, you pay 60 cents, you pay 60 cents. Then you're right on the fourth time, you make four bucks. How are you not ahead of the game?
You ARE ahead of the game.
CLICK HERE to continue reading Don’s article.
Gianni Di Poce: The Quantum Computing Trade
Last November, I told members inside the Trinity Trade chat to start building positions in Rigetti Computing.
The stock was trading just over a dollar. The thesis was straightforward. Quantum computing represented an emerging technology sector with massive institutional attention, government backing, and the kind of volatility that creates real trading opportunities.
What followed was exactly the kind of price action you want to see when positioning early in a nascent sector. We saw an explosive rally into 2025.
The moves were dramatic. We're talking triple-digit percentage gains within weeks on several names across the quantum space. These weren't small wins. These were the kinds of trades that can define a year.
Then came the pullback at the start of 2025. Sharp. Fast. The kind that shakes out weak hands and gets skeptics shouting about bubbles bursting. Over the past couple of weeks, we've seen another leg down. The stocks have come back to earth. The "I told you so" crowd is out in full force.
I understand the skepticism. When stocks rip 100% to 300% in a matter of months, people naturally get nervous. They see parabolic moves and assume the end is near. But that perspective misses the bigger picture entirely.
CLICK HERE to continue reading Gianni’s article.
Jeff Bierman: The Rip Curl Wave
I grew up on the beaches of Los Angeles.
Friends would drive us to the shore. We'd hit the water at 6 AM for the morning glass. Boogie boards. Surfboards. Wetsuits. I lived in Hawaii and surfed there too.
I'm not a great surfer. But I was a damn good boogie boarder.
Now I live in Chicago. Gray hair. Old. My wife married me anyway knowing there was still some surfer in me.
But I remember the water. I remember the waves. And I remember the ones that would kill you if you didn't respect them.
This week I kept thinking about one wave in particular.
The rip curl.
CLICK HERE to continue reading Jeff’s article.
Brandon Chapman: How I Know These 3 Stocks Will Explode
The Ghost Prints Surveillance Console just caught three squeeze setups identical to the pattern that delivered 59% on MARA in 4 days.
Same purple bars.
Same institutional block buying. Same
compressed short interest ready to ignite.
Most traders will never see these opportunities. They're buried in data most people can't access, let alone interpret.
But two new features in the Ghost Prints system now flag these explosive setups automatically.
I'll reveal all three tickers during my live session on Monday, October 27th at 2pm EST.
Register now and you'll get a FREE high-conviction Ghost Print Signal immediately.
But first, let me show you what these tools caught this week.
CLICK HERE to continue reading Brandon’s article.
Blake Young: The Broken Watch: A Lesson in System Documentation
I have a Citizen watch that I have owned for decades.
I love the watch for both the quality of the watch and for the sentimental value it holds.
The problem with this watch is that it has a broken component in its movement, which makes it so it doesn't keep time well, and the stopwatch mechanism doesn't complete one minute of timing.
I have taken it to multiple places to get it repaired, and the real issue lies in the fact that parts available for this older watch are scarce. They also did not document watches in the 90s very well, so it is nearly impossible to know what part is needed, let alone find it on the secondary market.
I even tried to find a "broken" watch that I could harvest the parts from, but no luck.
So now I have, as the saying goes, a watch that only tells the correct time twice a day. I can replace the battery every three months or so and have a partially functioning timepiece.
CLICK HERE to continue reading Blake’s article.
Tony Rago: Day Done in Four Minutes
Friday morning, the market opened and several traders in my room captured 50 points before their coffee got cold.
Four minutes into the session, they were done. Logged off. Day complete.
The setup was textbook. The pit opening range broke higher. The cash level held exactly where it should.
Price bounced from the 66 level and ran straight back to test the overnight high from the CPI reaction. Clean entry, clear target, no hesitation.
"A lot of traders said, 'Hey, I'm done. I'm out of this thing. See you later.'"
The opening ranges have been money lately. Big time.
But here's what made that trade possible.
It wasn't luck.
It wasn't some complex algorithm or proprietary indicator.
It was a simple system these traders learned, practiced, and followed without deviation.
CLICK HERE to continue reading Tony’s article.
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