Smashing Volatility

Smashing Volatility

Vixpiration Strikes Again

Fed/NFP/Giga Tech earnings trades

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Scott Murray
Apr 16, 2025
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Choosing strikes for spreads at this point is quite challenging; you simply can’t predict from here out if the tape bombs will be positive or negative. On vixpiration eve, what I call the vol watershed, they were not good. ASML with weak bookings/guidance and yet another Trump bullet hit NVDA rendering a large chunk of inventory far less valuable, as un…

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