FISH STORIES / BLOG
Occasionally I blog about fishing, the fishing industry and behind the scenes in the life of this humble fisher. These can be rigorously thought-out or pure fluff pieces. You get what you get. Kinda like fishing.
Fraud Always Marks The Top
“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” – Ludwig Borne I hate drama, let alone being at the inception of an idea that is triggering both notoriety and attacks. I consider myself an analyst for analysts, and that my clients...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour – School is now in session!
Get off the Beach and Back to the Desk as Samantha and Craig discuss large potential macro risk events for September including CPI, September options expiry and the FOMC meeting! Macro-to-Micro Power Hour with LaDucTrading Hosts: @SamanthaLaDuc and Craig Shapiro...
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Meet Riley – Our super smart young COMMUNITY mentor
Meet Riley O'Mara Riley supports LaDucTrading’s CLUB & COMMUNITY members. He hosts a daily live stream in our discord server for COMMUNITY members in addition to mentoring newer traders. Riley is an intraday-focused trader, with a specific focus on the S&P 500 and...
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Meet Rithika – Our Charting Queen and Technical Analyst
Meet Rithika Ramakrishna Rithika supports LaDucTrading’s CLUB & COMMUNITY members. She is an active moderator in our Live Trading Room sessions and a contributor in our Slack trading desk with her own own popular channel: #ritikas-hot-tickers. She has an...
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Melt-up into Melt-down Coming?
With Debt Ceiling resolved, what's next? Well, FOMC and June monthly AND quarterly expiration for one and potential liquidity crunch from TGA issuance for another. Let's unpack the risk/reward. And let's find out what Craig and Samantha see for opportunities for the...
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Meet our Secret Weapon, Macro Advisor & Hedge Fund Manager
Meet Craig Shapiro Craig is LaDucTrading's Macro Advisor, primarily supporting our EDGE members. He acts as an outsourced macro consultant sharing his investment process and market thoughts while engaging with other macro-minded members interpreting the financial...
read moreBiggest Risk to Market Returns: US Dollar and Yields
Samantha's interview February 9th with @avainvestmedia's Giorgio Tavazza is a must listen. 💃 Take a deep dive into Samantha's insights and thinking on the current state of the markets. 🔥 The video features Samantha's 2023 Prediction for "Unattractive Risk Reward" for...
read moreMacro-to-Micro Power Hour FOMC Special
Pre Fed Look - Fed is Trapped! Note: At 2PM today (Wednesday, 1st February 2023) - Samantha LaDuc will host a special public FOMC Live Trading Room session. Follow @SamanthaLaDuc on twitter for the link to this special free session. Our founder and Chief Market...
read moreSamantha’s Bloomberg Interview – 23rd January
Sincere apologies for the technical issues that resulted in this video being initially sent out as a private video. Our bad and we are working on a fix to ensure it does not happen again. In a nutshell, Samantha proposed BOJ as event risk not Fed; to protect profits...
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Quiet Success
Each year I reflect back on my biggest successes and failures. The failures occupy the majority of my thinking the majority of the time, simply because I am so committed to overcoming where I have fallen short of my goals. It’s the same mindset as my pinned tweet:
Every successful trader was once an amateur that never gave up.
FOMC Preview with Samantha & Craig
Our founder and Chief Market Strategist, Samantha LaDuc, is joined by Hedge Fund Manager and LaDucTradingEDGE Macro Advisor, Craig Shapiro, to offer up their take on CPI release and FOMC risk. They also have a look at how best to position for year-end as well as a...
read moreCNBC Pro Interview
##### LADUCTRADING YOUTUBE CATCH a replay and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel. Your next big catch is waiting for you and we will help you find it. 🔦 https://www.youtube.com/c/LaDucTradingChannel ##### STAY CONNECTED TO LADUCTRADING: Market Timing Calls (-MTC -) 🎣...
read moreWhen Is It Safe To Buy Tech Again? #valuerotation #tech #macro
When Is It Safe To Buy Tech Again? Samantha presents at the Synergy Traders Friendsgiving Conference 2022 on her continued theme of NASDAQ UNDERPERFORMANCE - as called 1st of the year - along with her prescient call for continued Growth to Value Rotation. See why she...
read morePost Mid-Term-Election Market Melt-up or Mayhem?
Here is a replay of our Macro-to-Micro Power Hour from Wednesday, pre-CPI and post-election. Our founder and Chief Market Strategist, Samantha LaDuc, was once again joined by Hedge Fund Manager and LaDucTradingEDGE Macro Advisor, Craig Shapiro, to discuss the state of...
read moreCrypto Rant w/ Analysis NVDA | BITO | MSTR & more
Crypto Rant w/ Analysis NVDA | BITO | MSTR & more #optionstrading Live Stream Options Callout (Market Timing Calls) #tradealerts #livetrading #optionstrading ##### LADUCTRADING YOUTUBE CATCH a replay and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel. Your next big catch is waiting...
read moreFed Day | FOMC Live Stream
LADUCTRADING Samantha Live Streaming Fed Day with Every Turn - from Macro to Micro - covering Samantha's trade set ups for clients - SPX, AAPL, NFLX, XLE etc - as well as real-time analysis of Powell/Fed and its impact on many assets from equities to bonds, oil and...
read moreBrace For Impact If Bulls Don’t Defend Here – A MacroAdvisor Special
Founder/CTO of LaDucTrading, Samantha LaDuc, and MacroAdvisor/HF Manager, Craig Shapiro, discuss the stick-save to markets on BOJ intervention Friday the 2st - the day after Samantha's warning to brace for impact. Are the growing risks to global markets going away now...
read moreLive Stream Analysis | $USD/JPY | Market Analysis
From Sept 2 through Oct 21, 2022 Sam has been providing her FishingCLUB members with insight and analysis on the USD/JPY activity, warning them of the risks while also providing trading opportunities in the S&P, the FXY, the USD/JPY and in GOLD. Were YOU prepared for...
read moreLive Stream Analysis | $TNX
#optionstrading Live Stream Options Callout (Market Timing Calls) #tradealerts #livetrading #optionstrading ##### LADUCTRADING YOUTUBE CATCH a replay and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel. Your next big catch is waiting for you and we will help you find it. 🔦...
read moreKnow What You Own – A MacroAdvisor Special
There is an AIR POCKET OF RISK in stocks and bonds that the market does not see yet. Founder/CTO of LaDucTrading, Samantha LaDuc, and MacroAdvisor/HF Manager, Craig Shapiro, discuss the growing risk to global markets. Don't miss joining our Macro-to-Micro power duo in...
read moreSynergy Expo: SEPT 1ST “Ask Samantha Anything!”
EVERY MARKET TIMING CALL SAMANTHA MADE SEPT 1ST HAS HAPPENED. #Oil $XLE ($USO, $UGA, $XOM, $CVX...), $WTIC #Uranium $CCJ #Volatiliy $VIX #TrendsLong $BJ #TrendsShort $KWEB #NasdaqShorts $TSLA $MSFT $QQQ #SectorShorts $XLE $XME $XME Samantha also showcased some of her...
read moreStockChartsTV Interview: Biggest Bond Loss in History
Samantha was invited back to StockChartsTV to review her historic market call for bonds to fall and US dollar to rise and where stock markets go from here. ##### CATCH a replay and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel. Your next big catch is waiting for you and we will...
read moreMarket Timing IS Volatility Timing
Samantha discusses how she times volatility moves in stocks, sectors, and indices to position for out-sized gains. Want to know how she timed the Nasdaq underperformance for 1st half 2022 and biggest bond crash in history? Listen in to find out and learn what...
read moreMarketWatch Features Samantha’s Market Calls
First Published: May 5, 2022 MARKETWATCH ARTICLE: This trader predicted the bond meltdown, tech selloff and oil’s surge. Here’s what she says is coming next. And today, this is still Samantha's baseline bet - higher oil, higher interest rates, higher US dollar. To...
read moreInteractive Broker Podcast: Things Over Paper
Samantha's interview with Steve Sosnick, Chief Market Strategist at Interactive Brokers, is up! Catch the latest IBKR podcast with Steve Sosnick and Samantha LaDuc: Traders’ Insight Radio Ep. 21: Things Over Paper "I’ve long been a fan of her market insights, and she...
read moreNavigating Volatility In The Markets – Futures Radio Interview
Streamed live on May 11, 2022, Futures Radio host Anthony Crudele interviews Samantha for a timely discussion about the markets we are in! "Navigating Volatility in the Markets with Samantha LaDuc. We discussed why she remains bearish Equities and why we may remain in...
read moreD.I.Y. Wealth Builder With This One Common Indicator
Boring can be quite profitable - like Samantha's Trend Trades in support of her THINGS OVER PAPER theme to time with rising US yields and inflation. In this presentation, Samantha reveals the one indicator she applies for every trade she spies - long or short. She...
read moreBig Ideas for Trend Trading – From The MONEYSHOW
Samantha reviews her THINGS OVER PAPER theme that she called back in July 2020 when she called the bottom in interest rates and timed the rotation into oversold commodities, cyclicals and large-cap value plays. Not only did she make the bold call that bonds had...
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Samantha’s $130 Oil Call is Now $260
Oil Intervention Won't Help Given the buzz today is on Biden's plan to release oil from the strategic petroleum reserves to lower prices on energy costs, it may be a good time to review my higher oil call. My intermarket analysis is how I time inflection points in...
read moreWomen Traders and Investors Conference – $130 Oil Vey!
Samantha made a bold call last year when she presented her $130 crude oil call to the Synergy conference in October 2021. Well, to everyone's surprise, it happened! Now what does she see next for oil, copper, markets in general here and abroad. See what this...
read moreRussia is attacking Ukraine and the US Dollar: Is this the end game?
Craig Shapiro, our Macro Advisor at LaDucTradingEDGE, wrote a strong opinion piece back on Feb 12th - before US removed Russian banks from SWIFT and restricted the Russian Central Bank: "Russia is not attacking Ukraine. They are attacking the US$. The end game has...
read moreWar in Europe: Live Trading Room Access REPLAY 2/24/22
In light of the news of Russian invasion into Ukraine, Samantha extended an invitation to all to attend her live trading room Thursday February 24th 2022. Samantha had/has been adamant since November 2021 about market risk and warned the Jan 24th low was likely to be...
read moreRussia isn’t attacking Ukraine. They (and China) are attacking the US$
MEET YOUR SECRET WEAPON Macro-to-Micro market analysis, news context and curated trade support for institutional clients. The US is already in an economic war with Russia and China. Did we already lose? I continue to put pieces together post the Putin/Xi meeting from...
read moreTiming Tops and Bottoms: Are We At One Now?
[Unlocked Member Slack Post from Samantha] Breadth Capitulation? It's become sport on FinTwit to call a bottom - I've even played along: here, here and here. I won all three bets even though I have admitted, repeatedly, that I am MUCH better at calling tops than...
read more2022 Predictions: Is It Safe?
Market Wisdom - Macro-to-Micro - with Samantha's 2022 Predictions! ##### CATCH a replay and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel to get alerted on exciting new videos! https://www.youtube.com/laductradingchannel ##### STAY CONNECTED TO LADUCTRADING: FishingClub and...
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2022 TOP PREDICTION: Growth To Value Rotation Continues
From Samantha's StockChartsTV Interview January 6th: One of my favorite rotations to time is from Value to Growth and vice versa. As a Macro-to-Micro analyst, educator and trader, I work to find durable trends to trade with and around for my clients. One such trend...
read moreDedicated Futures Trader Joins LaDucTrading
Client feedback drives much of what we do at LaDucTrading. And with that, we are very happy to announce the addition of a dedicated Futures trader to our GROWING TRADING DESK !!! Su Jagannath has actively traded futures successfully for over 16 years - here in the US...
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Oil as Public Utility
**The following oil analysis was posted by Samantha for LaDucTrading FishingClub and BigIdeas clients in their Slack workspace under #macro-to-micro channel. It was published on Wednesday November 24th during market hours to support her oil short thesis she had been...
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Reflections and Gratitude
Reflections: Looking back in order to look forward. 2020 was a massive year of change for many. It didn't seem it at the time, but it was preparing us for big gains. The adage of 'from deconstruction comes construction' was in full view. I had a few good calls in 2020...
read moreBenzinga Boot Camp: Chase, Swing and Trend Trading with Options!
Samantha was invited back by Benzinga to talk about how she trades options across chase, swing and trend timeframes! From her macro-to-micro analysis to predict special situation trade set-ups to her durable trend themes. You even get her "Guidelines to Options...
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LaDucTrading is Growing
Exciting News In June, I hired Rithika to run our LaDucTrading Discord server to better inspire and support young momentum traders. A great community was born and now 3,000 members are being nurtured by fabulous moderators as we share our highest-probability...
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Deflation Ended With Covid
Inflation = Sticky I made the bold claim last year in August that deflation ended with Covid and so many inflationary themes would be 'sticky'; translation: systemic not transitory. Covid was the trigger but deglobalization as a trend is likely to continue if for no...
read moreCommodity Special: How To Trade An Energy Crisis
Samantha was invited back by Synergy Traders to talk about how she saw the commodity super-cycle before it became one - from macro as a backdrop to technical analysis as confirmation, Samantha discusses how to trade an energy crisis from coal to uranium, natural gas...
read moreBloomberg Interview Sept 2: Bond Insurance Trade
Samantha was invited onto Bloomberg September 2nd to give her views on non-farm payrolls, Fed policy and to share a bond trade she gave her FishingClub clients to take advantage of higher yields and timing a fed taper announcement. Her suggested financed put spread...
read moreSector Rotation or Volatility: Those Are Your Only Two Options
Samantha was invited back by Synergy Traders to talk about how she does "VIX & News Event Trading". Just so happens that right before this presentation on September 22nd (also FOMC day), Samantha had timed a market pullback in SPY for her clients, warning them...
read moreHow To Trade It Podcast
Samantha takes an in-depth look at similarities and divergences between asset classes and then looks across a modality of studies. As a Macro-to-Micro analyst, educator and trader, Samantha makes her insights available to active traders and investors who want to...
read moreBenzinga Boot Camp Presents: Chase, Swing and Trend Trading with Options
Samantha was honored to be invited to kick off the quarterly Benzinga Boot Camp, presenting her take on trading options - from how age influences trading styles to her playbook across all time-frames: "Guidelines to Options Trading". Don't miss Samantha's fun and...
read moreFAVE Indicators – Synergy Traders Event #31
Check out Samantha's favorite Trend-Trading Indicator you've never heard of. It's also the easiest to use and comes standard with any charting or trading platform! All of Samantha's indicators she uses every day with both retail and institutional clients are revealed...
read moreBloomberg Interview – Reflation + Volatility edition
Nearly 4 months of yield curve expansion has been unwound in short order... and yet, Samantha went on Bloomberg yesterday with Taylor Riggs to explain why she was still bullish "reflation trades" as we head into earnings season. Do you follow Samantha's Trading...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: Momo Moon Mania
Elon Musk famously tweeted "Who controls the memes, controls the Universe". How does this translate into trading opportunities today? Samantha is joined by Jonathan of @vigtecofficial and @OptionsMatrix to discuss how to spy these money-making momo memes before they...
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