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Dear Reader, Markets react most violently when something they expect to happen does not. That's exactly why I love Fed announcements. While everyone else is trying to predict which direction the market will move, I'm positioning to profit no matter what happens. And my favorite weapon? The zero-day options strangle. The Setup That Made This Trade Beautiful Going into that September Fed meeting, the CME Fed Watch was giving a 94.7% chance of a quarter-point cut. Everyone expected Powell to deliver exactly what Wall Street wanted. But here's what most traders miss: when 95% of people expect the same outcome, you're not trading the Fed decision anymore. You're trading the gap between expectation and reality. I kept thinking - what if Powell doesn't give them what they want? After months of political pressure, wouldn't that be the ultimate surprise? My 1% Rule for Event Trades Here's my system: I target any move of 1% or more in the underlying. Doesn't matter which direction. For that Fed trade, I set up a strangle on SPY with calls and puts positioned around the 660 level. Total cost was about $6. If SPY moved up or down by 1% - roughly 6.60 points - I'd be profitable. A 1% move in either direction puts me in profit. Anything beyond that is pure upside. Why Strangles Work for Events A strangle is simple: you buy a call and you buy a put. The key is being in position before the event. You can't wait until after Powell starts talking. You have to be positioned when uncertainty is highest. If the market moves exactly as everyone expects, you break even or take a slight loss. But if anything unexpected happens, you profit big from the volatility spike. When I Almost Got Burned During one JOLTS report, I set up a perfect strangle and... nothing happened. The market barely moved. I lost most of my premium because the move wasn't big enough to overcome what I paid for the options. That taught me to be selective. Now I only use this strategy when I genuinely believe there's potential for market surprise. The Psychology Behind Market Surprises The market always reacts most violently when consensus gets shattered. If 94% of people expect a quarter-point cut and Powell delivers exactly that, you get a muted reaction. The move was already priced in. But if he does nothing? Or cuts a half-point? That's when you see real volatility. | 
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