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.Macro-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
https://youtu.be/R3i-4VO-lQs
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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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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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Announcing New Member Feature: SLACK Attack
I am freaken happy to announce that we have launched a fabulous collaboration tool to aid in the sharing of time-sensitive and relevant trading and investment research, education and trade ideas in support of members via SLACK! SLACK makes communication not only...
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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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New Live Trading Room Hours
Where our focus goes, our energy flows. Samantha will open her trading room from 9:00 - 12:30 PM ET each trading day to commentate and engage with clients at the top of each hour. She will review her market thoughts, trade set-ups and custom analysis for clients for...
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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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Director of Research and Trader Education Joins LaDucTrading
LaDucTrading Clients and Future Clients, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Andrew O’Connell, and I am joining LaDucTrading as the Director of Research and Trader Education. My goal is to help you get the most value out of your membership. I will be...
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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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Bonds baby bonds.
Pension Funds in Historic Surplus Eye $1 Trillion of Bond-Buying
“no matter what” 🤔😉
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-28/pension-funds-with-a-historic-surplus-eye-1-trillion-of-bond-buying
📺 New video just published on our YT channel 👀 💃
➡️TSLA Long Jan 26 - Jan 27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt4kJi0_alQ
#macro #swingtrading #options
About that GDP print…
Eric does a great job:
“the engine of economic growth is in recessionary territory.”
A lot of conflicting stories about the GDP report.
The best way to analyze the GDP report is to work through the layers of cyclicality.
Let's take a look.
Here's the GDP report in a short thread.
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