OptionsJive

Your broker app isn't broken. The market is closed for Juneteenth. Theta isn't. No bell, no 0DTE. Just the one day the market forces the hardest trade there is: doing nothing.

Adobe just fell to its lowest price in more than 8 years. 🚨

is now down more than 70% from its 2021 peak. So if you bought and held one of the "safest" software names in the market, you're sitting on one of the ugliest drawdowns in mega-cap tech.

But as a premium seller, this is exactly where the opportunity starts. This is where I look for asymmetric structures. My famous put ratio is one example.

Stack enough credit into high IV and the premium pulls your EFFECTIVE COST BASIS TOWARD ZERO.

The stock can keep falling, but you don't need to own it blindly. This is why we sell volatility instead of holding the stock.

More specific trade ideas on ADBE coming soon.

tastytrade says has an IV Rank of -60.5. IV Rank only runs 0 to 100.

Why it's broken: rank measures today's volatility against a year of the stock's own history. SPCX has two days, so the screen prints nonsense.

Look at the implied volatility. Biggest IPO ever, and it's handing you a textbook volatility crush in real time.

options, day one. Everyone's watching the stock. I'm watching this.

Backwardation from the open. Near-term volatility north of 100%. A stock that went from $135 to $225 in four days with zero pricing history.

The market is building term structure from scratch. The volatility surface is more honest than any analyst target right now.

Everyone is celebrating the Iran deal rally. dropped 3 points in a single session. Traders unwinding every hedge they built over the last 3 months.

And I just put on two trades that are positive theta AND positive vega at the same time. That sounds impossible. It isn't.

The market is pricing in a perfect outcome on events that haven't happened yet. We're collecting theta daily while owning the volatility spike if they don't.

Full breakdown in the new article. Link in comments.

options list this week.

Biggest IPO in history. $1.75T valuation. And when those options open, implied volatility will be north of 100%. Pure sentiment, no pricing history, no term structure.

That's a premium seller's dream. Two IV crush events already locked in:
- Earnings: September
- Lockup expiration: December

I'm adding to my Trading Plan as a core trading vehicle. Trade ideas coming.

Follow if you want to be there when they drop.

The most important chart right now isn't , , or .

It's the dollar. DXY just bounced off a trendline that's held since 2008. 2011, 2014, 2021. Every prior touch kicked off a multi-year dollar rally.

Here's what most traders miss: every long you own is a short dollar position. Stocks, gold, BTC, all of it is just an asset divided by USD.

When the denominator bounces, every numerator feels it. Respect the line. More to come.

Have you ever traded a Multi-Asset Iron Condor? It's like chess in 4D.

A regular condor plays two dimensions: price and time. This one plays four: price, time, volatility, and correlation.

The deltas cancel. The correlation hedges. The theta stacks. One condor. Two tickers. Zero predictions.

Full structure & management plan: link in comments.

VIX spiked 15% today. Geopolitical headlines. Rate fears. Margin contracting across short-vol portfolios everywhere.

I just posted an emergency note: 3 techniques to recover buying power fast, including a Trump Hedge that pays you to enter and releases buying power instead of consuming it.

Not for speculation. For when the book is stressed and you need to act now. Link in the comments.

Friday handed premium sellers a gift. Look at those IV Ranks. Multiple names at 80, 90, 92, built in a single session.

That gap between fear-priced implied volatility and what actually gets delivered is the Variance Risk Premium. Friday stretched it to historic levels in semis.

Fresh trade idea just dropped on Patreon.