Earlier this week, during our Masters in Trading Live sessions, we walked through an emerging collision that almost nobody in the trading world is paying attention to yet: quantum computing versus cryptocurrency security.

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Major institutions are already incorporating these probability signals into their forecasting process.

And now we can see in real time how these markets are handicapping the outcomes of everything from potential military strikes to business acquisitions.

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Right now, the bull market isn’t broad — it’s just concentrated in key assets like energy stocks, crude, and industrial metals.

When volatility spikes across these asset classes at the same time, it tells you something important: institutional capital is repositioning away from risk in droves.

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When technology gets easier, margins compress. Complexity loses its premium, and adoption explodes. Profit pools shift. And that’s when money flows toward simplicity. AI is bringing simplicity online in a big way. It’s what I like to call AI’s “Wallpaper” Phase. You see, investors love the wiring phase: chip demand, GPU orders, data center build-outs,…

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I was ten years old the first time I saw Back to the Future in a movie theater. It was the summer of 1985. I remember sitting in that red fabric seat, feet barely flat on the floor, popcorn and Coke balanced carefully in my lap – no cup holders back then. The lights dimmed,…

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Markets move on belief. That’s why hype cycles often drive price action faster than fundamentals can justify. And it’s why the biggest edge in modern markets is rarely about being the smartest person in the room. It’s about knowing which signals to watch and catching the shift before the crowd.

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Right now, a powerful probability engine is shaping the next wave of market moves - whether most investors realize it or not. These real-money probability signals are often more reliable than analyst forecasts. And I’m going to show you how I use shifts in belief, before prices adjust, to identify high-probability setups in individual stocks.

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Let’s get one thing out of the way up front… Stocks don’t move because a number on a website ticks from 62% to 65%. Prediction markets don’t cause price action. That’s not how any of this works. But here’s what does matter—and what has always mattered: how people feel about the future. Especially when those…

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The long IPO winter is finally coming to an end. And today, it’s a new wave of AI startups leading the surge in public listings. Right now, companies like OpenAI (headquartered within Microsoft for now) and Anthropic are inching closer to public offerings that could break the IPO market wide open over the next year. And…

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The stocks that dominate headlines — from the Magnificent 7 to the latest AI darlings — tend to absorb all the market’s attention. Especially during earnings season, when price action feels loud, crowded, and obvious. But as I remind members of Masters in Trading every day I go live, the biggest opportunities rarely sit in…

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Why Financial Advisors Quietly Come to Me to Learn Options For as long as I’ve been coming to you live with Masters in Trading, there’s one thing most people constantly get wrong about me. Most people assume my work is aimed solely at individual traders. Now, don’t get me wrong. That claim is half true.…

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Most people come to the market just looking for answers to what seem like simple questions — “what should I buy,” “where’s the S&P going,” “what’s the next trade.”  After enough time — and enough scars — you realize the market doesn’t reward answers by themselves. It rewards understanding how to find those answers.  For…

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I didn’t know it then, but the first steps I took onto the floor of Chicago Mercantile Exchange at 22 years old shaped everything that came after. That was where I learned what really separates traders who survive from traders who wash out. And it's precisely where I learned the mindset of a master trader...

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The holiday season is here and the markets are taking a pause. But that doesn’t mean we have to sit idle. While Wall Street is quiet, it’s the perfect time to sharpen our trading skills and learn strategies that can make us more profitable when the market reopens. So today I want to take this opportunity to tell you a story…

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If you’ve been following Masters in Trading Live for any length of time, you’ll know that I do my best to stick to the facts. I talk about risk.I talk about structure. I talk about process, positioning, and how professionals think. What I don’t do is come on and say: “Here’s where I think the…

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Volatility is a constant in the stock market. And it can be the biggest impediment to success if you don’t know how to manage it. Today, I’m breaking down the key terms and strategies every options trader needs to understand how we manage volatility over the life of an options trade. I also want to show you the exact tools we use to measure volatility in the stock market.

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It started with a blip on my options scanner — a surge of strange trades in a stock everyone had written off for dead. It led to one of the boldest calls of my career. And within months, that blip turned into a 10,000% eruption that made Wall Street tremble.

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Most people move through life carrying a quiet set of assumptions about how things “ought” to work. We often build these assumptions from our first experiences when learning something new — keeping your hands at “two and ten” while driving or leaving the house three hours before a flight so you don’t miss your plane.…

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It started with a blip on my options scanner — a surge of strange trades in a stock everyone had written off for dead. It led to one of the boldest calls of my career. And within months, that blip turned into a 10,000% eruption that made Wall Street tremble.

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Editor’s Note: JR here. On Monday, I went live with the biggest event in Masters in Trading history — The Profit Surge Event. I revealed all the details behind my winning approach to trading Unusual Options Activity (UOA). And I even provided some free stock picks to anyone who joined. I showed viewers the exact approach we’ve used…

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For the past three years, the market’s been climbing with a weight on its back. Now that weight is coming off.

And with more rate cuts likely ahead, these conditions are setting the stage for the next leg up in risk assets. If the market has been this resilient without a tailwind, just imagine what happens when it finally has one.

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Back in 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent Wall Street into a frenzy with a single blog post. He made the boldest claim about AI’s future yet: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents join the workforce and materially change the output of companies.” He didn’t stop there. He also…

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History likes to play a tricks on us. When we read about the big events over the years that shape a generation, far too often it will make it seem as though it showed up one day out of the blue.

But when you start digging into the story, most “overnight success” stories usually took years to build.

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History likes to play a tricks on us. When we read about the big events over the years that shape a generation, far too often it will make it seem as though it showed up one day out of the blue.

But when you start digging into the story, most “overnight success” stories usually took years to build.

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Tucked away inside the research campuses of IBM and Los Alamos Laboratory, two researchers just unlocked one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of the century. And guess what? Almost no one is paying attention to it. Fair enough – even I had no idea until I did a little research. But trust me when I…

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There’s an old Wall Street saying: “Don’t fight the Fed.” What it means is simple. When the Federal Reserve is cutting rates and flooding the system with liquidity, you want to be long. When they’re hiking rates and tightening, you don’t want to be the one standing in front of that freight train. The Fed…

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Every generation has its watershed device.

And today, another revolutionary device is poised to introduce a new technological leap we’ll be talking about for decades to come.

When that happens, investors who see it early are the ones who will capture all the generational upside.

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After the longest inversion in history, the yield curve has snapped back into positive territory. Some pundits are calling it a sign of confidence. Others say it’s the prelude to a recession… 

Either way, it’s the bond market’s way of telling us one thing — “Pay attention!”

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While everyone's panicking about this week's tech selloff, the smartest investors are seeing something completely different – opportunity.

Yes, stocks have been sliding. The Nasdaq is down 2.6% over five days, and headlines are screaming doom. But here's what they're missing: the AI revolution is just hitting its stride.

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I had just graduated from the University of Miami — sun still on my skin, confidence in my step — and Chicago was calling louder than any beach could. I wasn’t chasing an office job with a cubicle and a steady paycheck. I wanted the real thing — the noise, the chaos, the chance to…

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Options aren't some Wall Street mystery reserved for guys in $5,000 suits. They're just just another way to trade your same opinion on the same stocks you already know. And my strategy shows just how powerful options trading can be...

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For weeks, I’ve been talking about how certain companies hold huge amounts of ETH in their treasury — and how their stock prices don’t always match the value of what they own. Those mismatches are opportunities, but they open and close fast. And now I've built a tool that discovers those mismatches. One screen. All the companies, their ETH holdings, their market caps, and whether they’re trading at a premium or a discount — updating in real time.

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The history of the stock market is always written by the biggest winners. They set the precedent for every newcomer looking to disrupt the old guard stocks that came before. They create the expectations that traders use to price the markets. They’re the big movers of the global stock market – often more than religion…

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I’ve been a professional trader for over 27 years. I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the outright irresponsible when it comes to options education.

On the flip side, I’ve also seen what happens when people are finally shown the right way to approach options — not with hype or hero trades, but with structure, clarity, and real risk management.

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Markets love a good headline. A single press release can send stocks soaring. A tweet, a tariff, a central bank quip — they can all yank the S&P a few percent in one direction or another before lunchtime. Traders rush in, the algos pile on, and money changes hands completely by instinct. But just as…

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Ethereum is breaking out ahead of ETFs, shrinking supply, and Peter Thiel’s $1B bet. Here’s why ETH’s 2025 outlook could beat Bitcoin.

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Four times a year, something extraordinary happens in the markets. Every publicly traded company in the U.S. — from megacap tech giants like Apple to tiny biotech firms you've never heard of like Zymeworks — are required by law to step into the spotlight and show their hand. They release their quarterly earnings reports. They tell us how much money they made, what’s working, what isn’t, and what they expect for the months ahead. And almost without fail, these announcements trigger the biggest stock moves of the year.

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Years of data tell me the melt up in stocks has entered its final days...

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Four times a year, something extraordinary happens in the markets. Every publicly traded company in the U.S. — from megacap tech giants like Apple to tiny biotech firms you've never heard of like Zymeworks — are required by law to step into the spotlight and show their hand. They release their quarterly earnings reports. They tell us how much money they made, what’s working, what isn’t, and what they expect for the months ahead. And almost without fail, these announcements trigger the biggest stock moves of the year.

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My colleague 91���� has been tracking the institutional around AI stocks for weeks. And what he's discovered may surprise you... The big money isn't buying the AI stocks you think. Institutions are quietly loading up on smaller companies that actually build the AI infrastructure. And Louis just identified the exact companies at the center of this AI build-out that every investor should have on their radar...

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Big moves start quietly — sometimes weeks or even months in advance. And the people who know how to follow the money — real money — are the ones who end up in the right spot to ride the wave when it finally breaks. This week inside Masters in Trading LIVE, we weren’t reacting to news… we were watching the confirmation of trades we’ve been building toward for a long time.

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This year, the S&P 500 dropped about 19% before recovering to new highs again. If you don’t know what you’re doing, that kind of whipsawing market can be scary. But as I’ll show you today, there’s a trading strategy you can use that’s perfect for choppy markets – whether bull or bear. It may sound weird. But you need to making binary bets on the direction of stocks – also known as coin flips – and trade the relationships between stocks instead.

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I’ve been a professional trader for almost 30 years. I’ve seen just about every kind of market you can imagine – the good, the bad, and the truly chaotic. And I’ve learned that when markets that usually move together suddenly break apart, you can make a lot of money betting on them coming back into line again.

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Thanks to the biggest breakthrough so far in our 20-year history at TradeSmith, self-directed investors like you can now tap into the power of AI-assisted trading. It gives individuals a fighting chance in a market increasingly dominated by institutions and algorithmic trading. And on Wednesday, June 25th, Keith Kaplan will reveal exactly how regular traders can leverage this one-of-a-kind tech right now...

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Fifteen years ago, I lost my job. For decades, I had helped the biggest hedge funds and investment banks in the world profit from the most lucrative options contracts trading hands in the markets. And then in one fell swoop, it all nearly ended. Let me back up and tell you the whole story…

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Around 2015, I tried a little experiment to leverage my one-of-a-kind knowledge. I developed a software tool around a key market indicator. It’s a tool that tips us off to the biggest trades changing hands in the options market before most have any idea of what’s going on. I call it the Unusual Options Activity (UOA) Scanner. And it has seriously changed the game for my readers…

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Four years ago, I made the boldest call of my career on one stock the markets left for dead. What many didn’t know was that the smart money was getting into position... and the domino effect from this stock's huge ascent would become one of the biggest stories on Wall Street for years to come.

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While everyone is panicking over tariffs… options pro Jeff Clark had been pounding the table since President Trump’s inauguration, warning his readers of a period of volatility… and how he was excited to trade it. Buy-and-hold investors have gone nowhere from inauguration day, January 20 – when the S&P 500 was trading near 5960 – to June 2 when the S&P was trading at 5935. But Jeff has managed 19 winning trades in that time... And today, he's going to show you how he managed that amazing track record.

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Today, I want to walk you through a trade I usually would’ve saved for my All Access members. But this one’s too good. I’m sharing it with everyone who watches Masters in Trading Live—because I believe this trade has the potential to be one of the most explosive growth stories of the next decade.

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For nimble traders, market volatility creates perfect trading opportunities – as long as we know where to find them. While others panicked these past five months, we've leveraged one of the market's most reliable catalysts to stay ahead of the chaos – and it's helped us lock in serious gains.

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