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Look, when my buddy Frank first watched retail clients trade S&P futures back in the day, he said they looked like they were "juggling chocolate covered hand grenades." |
I've used that line ever since because it perfectly captures what happens when you give powerful tools to people who don't respect the explosive potential. |
Well, starting January 26th, NASDAQ just announced they're expanding zero DTE options to Monday, Wednesday, and Friday expirations for Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Broadcom, Google, Microsoft, and IBIT. |
That's right – you'll be able to trade zero DTE three times a week in these names instead of just Fridays. And I gotta tell you, I am absolutely drooling over this announcement. |
Here's what nobody's talking about |
The more expirations you list, the more solidified expected moves become. Period. Why? Because now you have skin in the game pretty much every single day. |
Before, you had one shot per week at true zero DTE in these names. Now you get three. That means three times the gamma concentration, three times the liquidity focus, and three times the opportunity to either make serious money or get chopped up. |
When billions are being traded on a $3.82 expected move because there's action every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we're going to follow those levels religiously. |
The more skin in the game, the more precisely we'll move to those expected ranges. That's not opinion – that's how this works. |
The volume concentration is getting ridiculous |
We're already doing 75+ million option contracts on big trading days. Yesterday we did 75 million, day before that 68 million. |
Last Thursday? 81 million option contracts when the market barely moved. That's absolutely ridiculous volume concentrated in a handful of names. |
Now multiply that action by three weekly expirations instead of one. Apple's did 123,000 contracts this morning and people think that's light. Tesla's at 235,000. |
Meta hit 200,000 yesterday. Imagine that firepower spread across Monday, Wednesday, Friday sessions instead of building toward one Friday explosion. |
Every day we stay compressed in this 6850-6950 range, exponentially greater amounts of risk pile into the exact same area. We're taking this ball of gamma risk and rolling it forward daily through zero DTE trading. |
What this actually means for my trading |
Earnings plays just became completely different. Instead of waiting for the right weekly expiration around earnings, I can now play Monday announcements with Wednesday expirations. Hit unexpected earnings moves with next-day zero DTE positions. |
Expected move butterflies become everyday strategies. When you can trade zero DTE three times a week in Nvidia, your butterfly game completely changes. |
You're not waiting for Friday anymore. |
The concentration gets even tighter. Look, everyone knows XLE and XLF exist, but nobody's trading them. XLF did 8,000 contracts this morning – you want fries with that? But everything that's actually in play is getting ridiculous volume because all the firepower goes into five or six names. |
Why I'm both excited and concerned |
This expansion just made my zero DTE masterminds infinitely more interesting. I can easily trade zero DTE every single day now. Not just Fridays – every day. |
But here's the thing, and this is crucial: when Frank said "chocolate covered hand grenades," he wasn't joking. They look sweet, they taste good going down, but they'll blow your account apart if you don't handle them properly. |
The product innovation is brilliant. But it's also going to separate serious zero DTE traders from gamblers real quick. You can't just set it and forget it with this stuff. |
When I'm eyeing a Meta position thinking it'll get killed if the S&P continues selling, having Monday and Wednesday expirations gives me surgical precision I never had. |
Here's what I'm doing about it |
I'll be trading these Monday, Wednesday, Friday zero DTE plays starting January 26th. Every single setup. This is the biggest expansion in zero DTE history and I'm not missing a damn thing. |
You need to be in the TheoTrade chat room watching me work these trades live. |
I'll be calling the entries, walking through the gamma setups, and showing you exactly how to read three-times-weekly zero DTE action in Tesla, Nvidia, Meta - all of them. |
I've been running zero DTE masterminds because this is where the real money moves. Now with Monday, Wednesday, Friday expirations, the opportunities just tripled. |
Get in there before everyone else figures out what we're dealing with. The clock starts ticking January 26th. |
Just remember - respect the grenades. Come in under-allocated. |
The entire marketplace just became chocolate covered hand grenades three times a week, and I'll be showing you exactly how to handle them without getting blown up. |
I'll see you in the TheoTrade chat room. |
To your success, |
Don Kaufman |
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