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Trading options during earnings season means IV crush hits stock-by-stock, all week. A look at Friday’s calm close and the Aug 3-7 earnings gauntlet ahead.
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Futures and options trading are linked by one mechanic: a weekend futures gap reprices Monday’s options before you can react. Here’s why that matters.
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SPY closed $747.03, QQQ $687.99 into a heavy earnings week. How this account reads earnings season price action without predicting a single print.
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SPY and QQQ today: SPY +1.68% to $741.69, QQQ +3.30% to $683.55. A hard reversal off yesterday’s FOMC selloff, and what a quiet Friday means next.
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SPY options today closed up 1.68% to $741.69 as QQQ jumped 3.30% on GDP and Core PCE data — a day after FOMC selling. Here’s the mechanical lesson.
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FOMC decision today: Fed holds at 3.50-3.75%, 3 dissents. SPY -1.54%, QQQ -2.04%. Why the headline and the tape didn’t agree, and what tomorrow needs.
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The FOMC decision today held rates at 3.50%-3.75%, largely as expected. SPY still fell 1.54% and QQQ fell 2.04%. Here’s the mechanical reason why.
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SPY and QQQ today: SPY flat at $739.09, QQQ down 0.31% to $682.12. What the split session means heading into tomorrow’s FOMC decision.
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SPY options today closed flat at $739.09 while QQQ fell 0.31%. Here’s what that split session means walking into tomorrow’s FOMC decision.
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I used to bet ahead of FOMC decisions. Here’s the trade that convinced me predicting the Fed is mostly ego, not edge, and what I do on data days now.