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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.
How Does the SPX/NQ Bubble Pop?

How Does the SPX/NQ Bubble Pop?

LaDucTrading Macro Advisor, Craig Shapiro's most recent client posts:   1. How does the SPX/NQ bubble pop?   Published 13 March 2024   Risk assets are starting to make some Fed members feel uncomfortable with their easing expectations but this won't stop going until...

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Fraud Always Marks The Top

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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Melt-up into Melt-down Coming?

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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Biggest 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...

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Macro-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...

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Samantha’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

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.

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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...

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CNBC 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 -) 🎣...

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Post 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...

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Crypto 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...

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Fed 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...

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Live 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...

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Live 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. 🔦...

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Know 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...

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Market 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...

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MarketWatch 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...

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Interactive 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...

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Samantha’s $130 Oil Call is Now $260

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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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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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

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 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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LaDucTrading is Growing

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

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...

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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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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...

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FAVE 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...

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