Why 95,000 Put Options Hit Financials Yesterday

Don here...

Somebody bought 95,000 put options on XLF yesterday. That is not a hedge.

Brandon Chapman flagged it in today's session before walking through a market where every setup requires more patience than most traders can handle.

Institutions are sitting on their hands. Selling pressure evaporates before it can build momentum.

The Iran headlines couldn't produce sustained downside. If you're heavy right now, this tape will grind you down.

Brandon is running an encore of his Squeeze Traps webinar tomorrow at 2PM EST. He showed today how 12,000 call contracts created temporary support through gamma pressure.

The webinar teaches you how to spot those setups forming and avoid getting caught on the wrong side. Add it to your calendar.

In today's free session replay, you'll discover:

How Ghost Prints reveals who is buying and who is selling in real time. Brandon broke down 12,000 Nike call contracts by matching fill prices to the bid-ask spread at the exact moment of execution. 9,500 were buys. 3,000 were sells. That distinction tells you whether institutional flow is creating upward pressure or just noise.
The dead zone trading method that identifies exact entry and exit levels. Built from over 200 technical methods and a million data points, the algorithm calculates where each stock stops moving and where momentum resumes. Brandon showed it live on SPY, IWM, Tesla, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple.
Why being lighter in this market is the only way to survive. Brandon has been taking 30-40% gains instead of holding for 70%. Liquidity is poor. Fills slip constantly. His advice is to treat every trade like a jab. Risk small, exit early, and live to trade another day.
How call option buying creates temporary support at specific strike prices. When thousands of contracts get bought at one strike, dealers hedge by buying stock. That creates buoyancy at that price level. Brandon showed how Nike's 56 strike became a magnet after the morning's order flow. When that open interest expires, the support vanishes.

Brandon closed with a framework anyone can use. Spend 30 minutes a day scanning alerts, set up two to three trades, and decide if any are worth taking.

Most days, the best trade is the one you don't force.

→ Watch Brandon explain how to read institutional order flow, why the dead zone method works for intraday setups, and how to size positions when liquidity disappears

To your success,

Don Kaufman
Chief Market Strategist, TheoTRADE

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