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.
D.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...
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Big 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...
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Women Traders and Investors Conference – $130 Oil Vey!
Samantha made a bold call last year when she presented her $130 crude oil call to the Synergy conference in October 2021. Well, to everyone's surprise, it happened! Now what does she see next for oil, copper, markets in general here and abroad. See what this...
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Russia is attacking Ukraine and the US Dollar: Is this the end game?
Craig Shapiro, our Macro Advisor at LaDucTradingEDGE, wrote a strong opinion piece back on Feb 12th - before US removed Russian banks from SWIFT and restricted the Russian Central Bank: "Russia is not attacking Ukraine. They are attacking the US$. The end game has...
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War 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...
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Russia 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...
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Timing 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...
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2022 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...
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Dedicated 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...
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Benzinga 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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Commodity 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...
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Bloomberg 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...
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Sector 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...
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How 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...
read moreMacro-to-Micro Power Hour: Sentiment Flows
Sentiment flows rock for traders who favor momentum plays. Option flow that drives sentiment flows especially rock to foretell big implied volatility as well as price moves. For this edition of MTM, Jonathan of @vigtecofficial joins Samantha to discuss new measures of...
read moreTiming “Short Value Long Momentum” – Macro to Micro Style
How did Samantha know to recommend the following trades before they happened: * Long US Dollar * Short Gold & Precious Metals * Long Momentum/Growth * Short Commodities/Cyclicals/Value Find out - have a look at the macro, intermarket and technical analysis Samantha...
read moreFrom Oversold to Overbought: EV Playahs XPEV, LI… NIO?
Suggested May 14th after a 60% pullback, EV Playahs looked done going down and were setting up nicely for some oversold bounces. Here's how Samantha spied the sector rotation using weekly pivots, keltner channels and fave candle formation patterns - and how she sees...
read moreFast, Slow and Just Right: DOCU, SHOP, NVDA
Samantha reviews recent trades tracked in her live trading room, populated in her client slack workspace and how technical analysis can guide successful trades using news, earnings and weekly pivot points. All were *hot fire flames* for clients following along. Let's...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: Summer Squeezes
Traders spent $11.6 billion on options premium for AMC in just one week--more than on SPY, QQQ and Tesla COMBINED! On Tuesday, Jonathan @vigtecofficial and Samantha talk meme stocks as it relates to Optionality as shown in VigTec's OptionsMatrix product, and where...
read moreSynergy Trading Conference: Why Risk Management Matters
Is there such as thing as "Too Much Of A Good Thing?" Have a listen to why Samantha says, "There are lots of ways to make money. The trick is not to lose it!" She covers her solid reflation plays that have followed spiking raw material and inflation expectations, as...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: Rocking Real Estate Revisited
Catch this fast-paced assessment on rocking real estate with @LoganMohtashami, an expert data analyst on the housing market. Logan joins Samantha to catch up on his bullish housing view from January: Real Estate - Perfect Storm To Outperform -...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: MEME MANIA
Retail traders are baaach and driving another round of Meme Mania! GME, AMC, BYND, BB and many more likely if this 'single-stock gamma option' run continues to drive market structure madness in select stocks. AMC was the most traded equity in the world at one point...
read moreWomen in Trading and Finance Interview – Denise Shull of ReThink Group
The Psychology of Trading Risk Solving the puzzle of trading psychology is front-and-center with Denise Shull, "trader psychologist to the stars", as she sits down with Samantha for an introspective look into overcoming fear, frustration and disappointment. Denise is...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: Crypto Carnage
Jonathan @vigtecofficial and Samantha dig in to the most bullish and bearish bitcoin-crypto arguments as well as technical assessments and market flows. Samantha shares her fascination with a 'conspiracy theory' on the bitcoin flash-crash May 19th as a...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: Crypto Special – Wolf Of All Streets
Scott Melker IS the Wolf of All Streets and in this interview he shares with Samantha details on his current bitcoin-crypto portfolio holdings, favorite coins now, in addition to his opinions and warnings on this volatile hyper-growth asset class that is...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: VIX – From Liquid to Gas
Jonathan of @VigtecOfficial had the early call on higher Gold, Silver and Miners - and has been pitching for weeks. Samantha was prescient in her call for a volatility spike - that we had and she sees happening again. Have a listen as they dig in deeper to discuss...
read moreWomen in Trading and Finance Interviews – Katie Stockton CMT
Samantha got to interview technical analyst and Certified Market Technician, Katie Stockton, for her next edition of Women in Trading & Finance Interview series. Prior to forming Fairlead Strategies, Katie @StocktonKatie spent more than 20 years on Wall Street...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: 1970s-Style Hyper Inflation?
No doubt you have seen the jokes about rising lumber and related commodity pricing. If you are building or buying or remodeling a house you don't think it's very funny. Well, the price moves in many raw materials has been meteoric the past year. Jonathan of...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour: Making Market Timing Calls with Cem Karsan
Samantha talks volatility trading strategies with quant brain and fintwit celebrity Cem Karsan @jam_croissant, founder of Kai Volatility Advisors. From Convexity and Risk Premia to Reflexivity and Deal Positioning, Cem shares insights on his 27-point model for...
read moreMacro-To-Micro Power Hour – Let’s Talk Micro
*They* broke the Macro, so let's talk Micro! Jonathan @vigtecofficial and Samantha drill down into how they see the market NOW, how they use Options Matrix to identify option flow from big whales to meme stocks, and debate if we are in a "hyper-inflation" market not...
read moreWomen in Trading and Finance Series: Izzy Charanek
Izzy @_ms_izzy joins Samantha for a great discussion about being a young women in trading and trader education - not to mention being the only female energy trader at a large power company in Calgary, Canada! Ms Izzy is a positive role-model and voice for women...
read moreWealth 365 Financial Summit – Risk Management Is A SuperPower
Do you follow Samantha's Trading Insights and other playlists on LaDucTrading's YouTube Channel? That's where you would be first alerted to Samantha's Free Fishing Videos. Wealth 365 Financial Summit - Risk Management Is A SuperPower On April 21st, Samantha presented...
read moreWomen in Trading & Finance Episode #10
Do you follow Samantha's Trading Insights and other playlists on LaDucTrading's YouTube Channel? That's where you would be first alerted to Samantha's Free Fishing Videos. Women in Trading & Finance with guest Vicki Bryan This one went a little longer than usual...
read moreUpdate: All Things ARKK – Top Ten Holdings
Do you follow Samantha's Trading Insights and other playlists on LaDucTrading's YouTube Channel? That's where you would be first alerted to Samantha's Free Fishing Videos. Here's an example... In follow up to Samantha's YouTube video last week: "Everyone into the ARKK...
read moreSPAC Attack 2: Macro-to-Micro Power Hour – SPACs as an Asset Class
https://youtu.be/1UrSz86NIeM  In follow-up to a very popular talk January 14th - SPAC Attack: A Very Special Macro-to-Micro Power Hour Guest Captain Interview - she again invited SPAC trader/investment manager Craig Samuels @sandiegosam and investment banker George...
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Video: Gamestop Has No Stops
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GameStop Has No Stops
Summary I recommended GameStop to clients of LaDucTrading as high conviction trade on August 10th at $4.36. I called it my $4 to $40 stock by end of year. It tagged $40 January 14th. Given sentiment and structure, I continued to recommended it long to clients in our...
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Daily Trading Videos You Do Not Want To Miss
YouTube Playlists For Better Trading Success We are building out Playlists on our LaDucTrading YouTube Channel that will showcase Samantha's best of breed macro-to-micro analysis, interviews, trading insights and contributing color! Macro-to-Micro Power Hour Featured...
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Gone Fishing Newsletter: 2021 Predictions
I was recently asked to present my 2021 "Look Ahead" for StockChartsTV CHARTING FORWARD 2021, "a yearly market outlook special featuring technical analysis icons Tony Dwyer, Rick Bensignor, Samantha LaDuc, Mary Ellen McGonagle, Craig Johnson and Gina Martin Adams."...
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SPAC Attack: A Very Special Macro-to-Micro Power Hour Guest Captain Interview
Introductions: A client asked me to do a Guest Captain Macro-to-Micro Power Hour on SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies), so I invited my go-to SPAC expert @sandiegosam to discuss them. Craig introduced me to George Kaufman who has the institutional...
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News You Can Use – Status on Open Projects & New Features
New Algo Products One of my goals in 2020 was to take my pattern-recognition, volatility-based indicators I used with clients and convert them into automated trading strategies for clients. Then I decided to make them available as stand-alone products for anyone...
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Not to beat up on economists today but here’s an indictment by ‘one of their own’:
"failure of the economics profession"
a "very unpleasant period", with "considerable" interest rate hikes now needed to prevent a re-run of the 1970s
former Bank of England governor Mervyn King
@SamanthaLaDuc https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-living-bank-of-england-shares-responsibility-for-crisis-former-governor-says-12617190 A RARE THING A CENTRAL BANKER TELLING THE TRUTH TO THE ENGLISH
