This Is How We Took Advantage Of The Chaos On Wall Street

Over the past few months, as Powell & Co. made it clear they would stay the course of rates going higher for longer, many people abandoned any nuanced analysis of ‘dot-plots’, terminal rates or curve inversion and adopted the stance the Fed would simply keep tightening “until something breaks.” I would venture to say last […] March 16, 2023 [Option Sensei] [This Is How We Took Advantage Of The Chaos On Wall Street]( Over the past few months, as Powell & Co. made it clear they would stay the course of rates going higher for longer, many people abandoned any nuanced analysis of ‘dot-plots’, terminal rates or curve inversion and adopted the stance the Fed would simply keep tightening “until something breaks.” I would venture to say last week’s failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB), which at $200 billion was the second largest in history, and the following intervention by the FDIC and bailout/backstop for depositors to prevent a contagious run on other regional banks qualifies as something breaking. So how do we put it all back together? Or more importantly, how do we take advantage of this state of confusion. Remember, from chaos comes opportunity. For option traders, chaos expresses itself as increased volatility, both realized and implied, and the pump in premiums has drawn to selling iron condors to take advantage of the dislocation. The CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (VIX), which is a broad measure of market volatility, shows recent events certainly spooked investors. The VIX spiked to its highest level in 6 months. My view is the recent price action, in which full asset classes such as Treasury Notes, some sectors, like regional banks and certainly individual names, experienced 10 sigma moves – that would be 10 standard deviations from the 12-month expectations – will now have a reversion to mean. This expectation for a stabilization in price has me drawn to iron condors like a moth hooked on meth fueled lightbulb. The first move [Options360]( made on Monday was to… Continue reading at [WEALTHPOP.com]( SPONSOR [Traditional Investing is DEAD]( If you are worried about your investment portfolio... drop everything and watch this demo immediately. It reveals how just ONE trade could make you $1,000 (or more) every month, even as stocks, cryptocurrencies, and the economy keep crashing. In the next few minutes, I'll walk you through this new step-by-step (nothing held back) so you can start using it today. It's my #1 way of making money right now. [Click here now to watch the demo.]( Copyright © 2023 Wealthpop | All rights reserved. Magnifi Communities, 1 Penn Plaza, Suite 3910, New York, NY 10119 [Contact]( / [Terms & Conditions]( [Click here to unsubscribe](