The move already happened. You just didn't have the trade on.

Something changed 6 weeks ago that most traders still have not figured out.

The exchanges listed Monday and Wednesday zero DTE options on individual stocks. Tesla. Meta. Microsoft. Apple. Google. Nvidia.

For the first time, you can run a zero DTE strategy on the biggest names in the market every single trading day.

I was in on day one. February 2nd. I placed my first SuperFly butterfly on Tesla and hit a 300% return the first day these things ever traded.

I knew I was onto something.

Here is what most people still do not understand about zero DTE.

When an option gets listed, the market immediately prices in how much it expects the stock to move. That number is called the expected move. It is built from billions of dollars of real capital on both sides of the trade.

It tells you exactly where the market thinks the upper and lower edge of tomorrow's range is.

Tesla this week: upper edge at $413, lower edge at $369. Set before the market opened Monday. The stock has been bouncing between those two levels all week.

Zero DTE options now account for more than half of all S&P 500 options volume. Over a trillion dollars moves through these contracts every single day.

At that scale, the options market is no longer reacting to stocks. It is setting the range they move within.

And here is the key. The real pressure does not build during the session. It builds overnight.

By the time the market opens, positions have shifted, futures have moved, and the options have already done most of the work.

I place my SuperFly trades the afternoon before. I target the upper or lower edge of the expected move and risk about 40 cents to make $2. Then I wait.

Tesla up 365%. Meta up 311%. Microsoft up 270%. Google up 235%.

I am not right every time. I do not need to be. You can hit 30% of these and still be profitable.

The math works because the wins are large enough to cover the losses and then some.

I ran through the entire strategy live today. The concept, the expected move framework, and an actual trade placed in real time on screen for tomorrow.

The replay is up. This is the move most traders are going to wish they had been positioned for.

Watch this video now.

To your success,

Don Kaufman

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