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.
New Year Greetings of Gratitude and Ingratitude
It's a quiet Sunday after a very noisy year. I am reflecting on what worked and didn't so I can move forward with purposeful intent. I am reminded, of course, of all the people who have come into my life - for a season, for a reason, and some for a lifetime. I am most...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: The Tremor Before The Quake?
corrected link... Jonathan and Samantha discuss the 40% VIX surge from Friday into Monday, how Samantha's SOON-to-be-released RiskON/RiskOFF indicator alerted clients 4 days before; $TSLA as a software disrupter and gamma as a market maker; ‘Blue Wave’ positioning for...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Strength is Fragile
Jonathan and Samantha discuss market structure in gamma, vanna and charm - but in simple terms so folks get it. Then they discuss current event risks as market continues to grind higher while complacency and extreme optimism reigns supreme. They end on a human note,...
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Guest Captain interview series kick off with Jonathan Gibbons of vigtec.io
Talk about good timing... Samantha interviews Jonathan Gibbons of vigtec.io, a prop trader and fintech entrepreneur. Together they discuss the markets at inflection point, volatility set ups and Jonathan's exciting new software app that helps traders find highest...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Jumping The Oil Shark
We invited Robert MacMinn back after last month's Guest Captain Interview in which Samantha and Robert talk their books being long the oil patch. (November 12th - Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Oil, Back To The Future) Robert discusses his rationale for timing the recent...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Feels Like 2008 and 2018
Jonathan and Samantha discuss the euphoric market melt-up in calls, and the sectors that are staying bid. Then we wax philosophically about how this resembles both Jan/Feb 2018 fundamentally and October 2008 sentimentally - but with monetary, fiscal and vaccine shots...
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Women in Trading and Finance Series: Time To Level Up
THANK YOU for all those attended, engaged, watched, gave feedback. Here's you chance if you missed it! Watch + get us feedback! Want some inspiration? Here's Samantha's "Voice of Women" FinTwit List. NEXT TIME JOIN US: Register for Thursday Dec 17 4:30PM ...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Option GEX Matters!
Jonathan and I discuss hot option flow and how to tell when it's hot and when it's not, overbought sector themes and forgotten volatility. Jonathan gave us a thrill by showing off their options data integration into their Live Charts on the VigTec.io platform. It is a...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: China Matters
Jonathan and I talked about the current market, year-end flows and TSLA's inclusion into the S&P before Jonathan made his presentation about China's rise to power and market implications moving forward, especially for the US dollar. Remember: Each Tuesday for...
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How To Swim With The Current Using Option Flow
Want to know how I use option flow in my live trading room to spot high-fliers like TSLA, NIO, and PLTR? You will learn a lot about my approach to trading and sizing up momentum moves by watching this one video.
Also in it I share my secret santas – the providers of the data that give me the best edge possible for my clients.
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EVENT CANCELLATION – Today’s Guest Captain Interview Postponed to Thursday Dec 3
Thank you for signing up or thinking about signing up for my conversation with Guest Captain Sang Lucci to discuss Women in Trading and Finance. Unfortunately, Sang is sick! Sadder still, he has Covid. So he has asked to reschedule for the Thursday after Thanksgiving....
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Oil, Back To The Future
Robert MacMinn @RobertMacMinn talks with Samantha about his process and models for timing and trading oil and integrated companies, as well as his big themes of the "Four D's" as Oil moves "Back To The Future". Guest Captain: Robert (Bob) MacMinn Bob has been actively...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Where Flows Are Flowing
Jonathan and I talked a lot about market views, option flows, $FXI $VIX $DXY in my Guest Captain Interview series Tuesday. We ran out of time to talk *all things China* but he has a 25 min PPT on that for next Tuesday 4ET. Remember: Each Tuesday for LaDucTrading's...
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Macro-to-Micro Power Hour: Special Election Edition!
Last Tuesday for LaDucTrading's inaugural kick-off of our new Guest Captain Interview series, Samantha interviewed Jonathan Gibbons of vigtec.io, a prop trader and fintech entrepreneur. Together they discussed their expectations for a volatility spike. VIX exploded...
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ANNOUNCING: Guest Captain Interviews – Today With Founding Partner Of vigtec.io, Jonathan Gibbons
Guest Captain Interviews Each Tuesday and Thursday after market close, Samantha will host an interview starting at 4:00 PM ET of someone you probably know or want to! Make sure to register for these scheduled expert Guest Captain Interviews conducted live, as well as...
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Profiting from Volatility and Market-Moving News
Want to know what tools and techniques Samantha uses to incorporate Volatility action and news headlines into her trading analysis and market-timing calls? Here is her Synergy Traders Event Presentation from Thursday hosted by @TradeOutLoud and @TimingResearch. From...
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What’s Working Short: NFLX JKS PTON ZM OSTK TLT
In follow up to yesterday's video on mostly longs, here were some recent short calls Samantha made in her live trading room - using time-frame congruence/pattern recognition and technical analysis. NFLX JKS PTON ZM OSTK TLT My VIX Webinar is tomorrow: SIGN UP HERE!...
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Market Timing Calls Using Time-frame Congruence
Samantha makes market timing calls every day for clients in her live trading room – ones she recommends as well as client requests for custom analysis. One tool she uses to better time momentum moves and reversals is time-frame congruence
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Catch Up With Samantha’s Live Trading Room Action & Great Stock Picks
If you are not signed up on Samantha's YouTube Channel, SUBSCRIBE HERE! She has posted a few public videos lately so folks can check out her live trading room analysis. Here are her latest client-focused trade set ups UNLOCKED! Highlights from Monday + Tuesday's Live...
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Update to 2nd Half Fave Trend Set-Ups – 3rd Qtr 2020 Review
Back on July 3rd, I posted for clients my: Second Half Market Thoughts - Fave Trend Set-Ups. Here is an update on how all those stock picks did in Q3 2020. Second Half Market Thoughts By my estimation, and as I’ve warned in my live trading room past month+, Summer...
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UNLOCKED Fishing Video: Lots of Micro and Key Macro
Had a bit of an analyst's hot streak this week - from lots of individual stocks (micro) to impending bond drop/rate spike (macro). THIS is an example of what I do every trading day in my Live Trading Room. https://youtu.be/eJEPtf6W2vQ DKNG, SBUX, GPS, NIO, BABA,...
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My Lindzanity Podcast #2!
This Howard guy is a lot of fun. Great host. Oh, and by the way, Howard Lindzon is the founder of StockTwits, and investor in possibly every fintech company you've heard of (Robinhood, eToro, RealVision) and many you haven't, so let's just say his nose is good for...
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Episode of Limit Up! Macro-to-Micro Trading with Samantha LaDuc
Trading Macro to Micro with Samantha LaDuc Samantha shared how she got into trading and offers advice for new traders cutting their teeth in our current volatile market. She also discussed her mantra: There’s no meritocracy in finance without the voice of women....
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Summer School is in session: Financed Call Spreads as a Set-It-And-Forget-It Trend Trade
Timing Research Presentation Thursday I was invited to be part of Synergy Traders #14 -- Advanced Options Strategies Here was the line-up: - 9AM: A.J. Brown of TradingTrainer.com - 10AM: Dan Passarelli of MarketTakerMentoring.com - 11AM: The Option Professor of...
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Announcing STOCKFit Exercise Break – Jump In!
Traders are already movers and shakers. Now put that to work another profitable way... Samantha is offering a trading day EXERCISE break for all LaDucTrading clients FOR FREE and everyone else for a small charge! Announcing Cienna Jade Harris - not only an awesome,...
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ForexAnalytix Interview: The Case For Value Over Momentum
Did you know, Small Caps have actually outperformed Large Caps this month? Coming out of recessions, small caps have beaten large nine out of the last 10 times and also tend to beat coming out of bear markets... Bloomberg That's why oversold 'value' plays has been...
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Memorial Day Honor: Investing and Grandpa
We don’t know them all, but we owe them all. In honor of Memorial Day, here is an article I penned Sept ’17 that is a mix of nostalgia, politics, a prescient call on populism (Warren/Sanders) + macro musings – not one word of which I would change today. ...
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Fishing Video: Just Breaking Down For A Trade
Chasing Market Short with clients in Samantha's live trading room Wednesday, May 13th - "Just breaking down for a trade": VIX $31 - 37 MSFT $184-177 ROKU $128 - 114 SPX $2874 - 2794 https://youtu.be/2kW2u1LwkKw Samantha's Technical Analysis of price action from...
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Tues 5-5 Premarket Review –
Premarket Tuesday I reviewed recent news, intermarket themes from my recent client post and market thoughts. Recommended Trade Ideas Highlighed: UGA, UNG, VLO, MPC, XOM... X, ROKU, TSLA, GBTC, TLT, UUP. For intraday trading: above SPX $2898 resistance is bullish,...
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UNLOCKED Fishing Plan for Week of May 4th: Premarket Client Review
Premarket Client Review: See what I said Tuesday May 5th as I reviewed recent news, my unique INTERMARKET themes from my member-only weekend post to clients as well as review of Monday trades and market thoughts. Recommended Trade Ideas Highlighted: Macro bullish USD,...
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UNLOCKED Fishing Plan for Week Ending May 1: May Day Review
Here's an UNLOCKED Member Video As warned Thursday April 30th in my live trading room, and in my "Nobody Left To Squeeze" monthly review for clients, markets had hit key resistance levels Thursday and would likely digest/pull back post FOMC and FAAMG earnings. Friday...
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May Day Market Review
UNLOCKED Client Video: As warned Thursday April 30th in my live trading room and month-end client post, markets had hit key resistance levels Thursday and would likely digest/pull back post FOMC and FAAMG earnings. Friday morning I warned at the open: "I think we're...
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UNLOCKED Client Posts and StockChartsTV
Free Stuff: Recently non-members were invited via email to access the following UNLOCKED Client posts: Fishing Plan for Week of April 13 – 17: Freaks of Nature April 15: Samantha Receommended Longs Into Earnings. Oil Under Pressure: Overshoots, Implodes, Catches Fire...
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Timing A ‘Very Strong Counter-Trend Bear Market Rally’
Back on April 15th, Samantha made available to non-members signed up via our FREE BAIT email list the following series of UNLOCKED Client posts from beginning of April: Gone Fishing Newsletter & Intermarket Chart Attack: Gluttony Fishing Idea: Timing The Next Oil...
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NEW: Trade Management Support
NEW: Trade Management Support With Archna: Daily From 1:30 ET We are now offering personal trade management support and option education classes, from basic to advanced, for members every day after Samantha's live trading room - SIGN UP HERE Announcement Wonderful...
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Spying a Very Strong Countertrend Bear Market Rally April 8 with Update April 13
APRIL 8TH: SAMANTH'A MARKET TIMING CALL FOR CLIENTS: "BULLISH INTO EARNINGS". HERE'S ONE INTRADAY INDICATOR THAT HELPED HER HELP CLIENTS STAY LONG: TC 2000 - T2104 VOLUME INDICATOR. AFTER SAMANTHA SAID 'MARKET IS BULLISH DESPITE -4% SPX BULLISH INTRADAY REVERSAL' ON...
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My Lindzanity Podcast!
Panic with friends (47) - with Samantha LaDuc of LaDucTrading This podcast was important to me. Practically everyone in trader education and FinTech knows Howard Lindzon - the founder of StockTwits and early investor in everything, and I mean everything, in the...
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My SeeItMarket Article – Crude Oil Forecast: Timing the Next Big Trade
Clients got my oil short thesis last Friday despite OPEC's historic meeting to cut production which many believed to be bullish. I followed up with my detailed analysis last Saturday for clients which was reprinted below by SeeItMarket on Wednesday. Today, crude hit...
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$GILD Pops Returning 250 TIMES Investment
This is not a typo. Not kidding: Gilead popped after market hours today on Remdesivir news on a treatment for COVID19. We caught it LIVE in my trading room. Assuming it sticks for the overnight, and it stays at/above $85 it will return 25,000%. I have been bullish...
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GILD Pops Returning 250 TIMES Investment
I've recommended $GILD to clients since Fri 1/31 as a "hold your nose" trend trade. Today I spied large Unusual Option Activity and told my clients LIVE in my Trading Room that I was convicted it would move higher. My room moderator sized up a "double bullish" option...
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Watch Samantha Catch Oil’s Biggest 1 Day Gain
Often I find market moving news to trade on and announce it to my clients in my live trading room. This Oil trade was a bit different in that I was waiting for it. From Monday before - when I noticed STRONG option flow in USO, both in my live trading room and in USO...
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Watch Samantha catch Oil’s Biggest 1 Day Gain – LIVE
Thursday April 2nd, Crude had it's biggest one day gain in history +35%. See how Samantha spied the set up Monday for clients in her live trading room - she went on to write about it for clients Tues and Wed - and then caught it real-time Thursday morning. Rec'd long...
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FACE Interview 13 03 2020 $SPX Samantha said this is worse than 2008 #COVID19 #FinancialCrisis
I said in this ForexAnalytix interview on Friday morning March 13th that this market correction was worse than 2008 AND last week we had the biggest market drop since.... 2008!
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UNLOCKED Client Video from March 10th: Correction or Crisis?
February 27th Client post: I've never seen distribution selling under the price action like this in the entirety of my trading career. I smelled/warned/wrote about but had no vision for a flash crash or waterfall just stair-stepping those $SPY gap fills. We are...
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Market Update: Correction or Crisis
Markets are full of risks - from CoronaVirus contagion disrupting economic stability to Repo liquidity disrupting money markets and both that fuel Credit markets instability. I review key Macro-to-Micro concerns, charts and price levels.
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Massive Distribution – Is It Safe?
I've never seen distribution selling under the price action like this in the entirety of my trading career. I smelled/warned/wrote about but had no vision for a flash crash or waterfall just stair-stepping those $SPY gap fills. Well, we are crashing 1987-style UNDER...
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My Interview with ForexAnalytix: Financial Crisis not Correction
My interview this morning: "Financial Crisis not Correction" How did I come to call this top? When did I turn to Really Bearish and why. Why I think it's not over (big picture)... I mention in the interview that I suspected by Sunday we would have an announced Global...
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