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You bought calls at support. |
Perfect setup. Textbook entry. |
Then watched the market grind sideways for 3 hours before dumping through your stop. |
Again. |
Want to know why that keeps happening? |
Because you're playing a game that completely changed... and nobody told you. |
Five years ago, zero DTE options were 5% of SPX volume. |
Last year? 59%. |
That's not a trend. That's a takeover. |
Over 2 million contracts trade daily now. Billions of dollars betting on same-day moves. |
And if you're still trading like it's 2019? |
You're getting eaten alive. |
Here's what actually happened: |
In 2022, Cboe started offering SPX options that expire EVERY trading day. |
Not just Fridays. Every. Single. Day. |
Suddenly, retail traders could make (or lose) 10x gains before lunch... with zero overnight risk. |
The floodgates opened. |
Now half the SPX options market is same-day expirations. |
$500 billion to $1 trillion in notional value... flipping hands before the closing bell. |
Think about that. |
The entire character of intraday price action has shifted. |
Because when 2+ million zero DTE contracts are being hedged in real-time... |
That's what's moving the market. |
Not your trendlines. Not support and resistance. |
Mathematical hedging pressure from dealers managing billions in gamma exposure. |
And here's the part most traders miss: |
Every day at 4:15 PM Eastern, SPX options settle. |
That's when you can capture the REAL expected move for the next day. |
Not some calculated guess. |
The actual mathematical boundary... based on billions in positioning. |
When markets approach those boundaries? |
Dealer gamma kicks in. |
Market makers who sold puts near the lower edge are heavily hedged short. |
They NEED to buy to rebalance. |
That creates statistical buying pressure. |
Not guaranteed. But mathematically favorable. |
That's the edge. |
And most retail traders have no idea it even exists. |
Look, I get it. |
You didn't sign up to become a quant. |
You just want to catch clean intraday moves without getting your face ripped off. |
But the game changed. |
And if you don't understand what market makers are seeing... |
You're trading blind against people with asymmetric information. |
That's exactly why I built Don-DTE. |
It's a mastermind for traders who are done getting destroyed by zero DTE... |
And ready to actually understand what's moving the market. |
We break down: |
→ Expected move calculations (the REAL ones, not the BS online calculators) |
→ Dealer gamma positioning (where the statistical edges form) |
→ How to position around institutional flow (instead of fighting it) |
In our first session, we spent an hour and 45 minutes going deep on this stuff. |
Real mechanics. Real setups. Real edge. |
Not hopium. Not trendlines. Mathematical advantages you can trade. |
If you missed it, you can still catch up this weekend and join me live for the next session. |
We're building a group of traders who understand what's ACTUALLY happening in zero DTE. |
Because right now, over half the SPX market is this game. |
You can keep ignoring it and wondering why your setups fail... |
Or you can learn how the new game works. |
Click here to join Don-DTE |
The next session is this week. |
Don't get left behind. |
To your success, |
Don Kaufman |
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