Markets don't take Christmas off.
| | You want to know why the market feels different? | Why your technical analysis keeps getting blown up by what feels like random price action? | It's not random. And it's not your imagination. | The cart isn't just leading the horse anymore -- it's dragging the horse down the street. | Options are now driving underlying price movement instead of the reverse. And while everyone's wrapping presents, the scale of this transformation is absolutely staggering. | In 2016, zero days to expiration options accounted for 5% of SPX volume. | By 2025? Over 60%. | That's not gradual growth -- that's complete rewiring of market structure. | Daily notional volume routinely exceeds $1 trillion. | When retail traders concentrate this kind of volume into contracts that expire in hours, the traditional relationship between options and underlying gets turned completely upside down. | But here's what really matters: we just witnessed the biggest quarterly expiration in history. $7.1 trillion expired in a single day. | The European Central Bank is now studying this for systemic risk implications. | This isn't some new trading strategy. This is fundamental market structure change happening in real time. | Markets don't pause for holidays. And I spent 60+ minutes breaking this down Tuesday. | How 0DTE shattered the patterns we used to rely on. | And most importantly -- how to adapt before 2026 begins. | Watch the DON-DTE presentation here | Because the marketplace doesn't care if you're shopping or celebrating. | It only cares if you're still standing when the next opportunity shows up. | To your success, | Don Kaufman | |
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