For decades, I had helped the biggest hedge funds and investment banks in the world profit from the most lucrative options flow trading hands in the markets. Today, my mission is to give everyone the same edge. Here's how...

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President Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran over after three tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz. That’s the headline story. Now here’s the part the headlines can’t tell you: what the smart money expects to happen next.

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Three biotech companies are currently on my watchlist as institutional behavior lifts the entire sector. I'll show you the three picks I'm tracking and the key catalysts I'm watching in this space right now...

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Bitcoin miners are suddenly being thrust into the spotlight as the AI infrastructure boom takes off. And I've found a basket of names to capitalize on this shift that no one's watching yet...

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With vertical spreads, we have the power to target our upside and downside exposure without risking all of the capital we’ve put up on a single trade.

Many of our positions make use of these kinds of spreads in particular not only because they limit our risk… They also provide us different options for trade management based on whatever the markets throw at us. That’s what’s truly powerful about these trades – they allow us to stay nimble and adapt to wherever our chosen stock is heading.

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Does an IPO like SpaceX actually serve retail traders? Today, I want to answer that question – and show you where the real opportunities are emerging for traders looking for exposure to the AI megatrend.

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Mornings like we had on Wednesday are exactly why I get up and do this show every single day the market is open.  UniQure NV (QURE) opened around $43. Touched $48.88 intraday. Closed in the high $47s. Previous close: $26.99. An 81% gain, overnight.  Read that last number again. This stock nearly doubled in a single session.  Now, I…

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Most active traders don't lose money because they're bad at picking direction. It's because they don't have a system — a repeatable process that tells them why they're in a trade, how much they're risking, and when to get out.

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In today's essay, I’m breaking down exactly where I see the next opportunities emerging in drone stocks – and how we’ve used one system I’ve been researching for 28+ years to find them.

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On the evening of March 30, 2026, Google Quantum AI quietly published a 57-page whitepaper that, in a more attentive market, should have sent cybersecurity stocks and crypto markets into chaos. Instead, it barely registered...

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A lot of investors are asking on question right now: “How do we invest in Neuralink?” But when we see money flooding into a new sector, we should be asking a completely different set of questions...

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Institutional capital doesn't sit in cash. When it rotates out of one place, it shows up somewhere else. And right now, the somewhere else that smart money is flowing is getting very interesting...

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The new AI gold rush is happening in a little-known corner of the stock market. I'm here to tell you where the next setup is emerging -- and reveal the tool I'm building at the center of this new AI investment opportunity.

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I want to give you something more useful than a prediction.

I want to show you exactly how I read an oil market under stress — the two specific signals I watch, how they work together, and how they already handed us one of our best trades of the year.

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Some of the best setups appear before the story becomes obvious. Here’s the signal I'm following now.

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Most people move through life carrying a quiet set of assumptions about how things “ought” to work. We often build these assumptions from our first experiences when learning something new — keeping your hands at “two and ten” while driving or leaving the house three hours before a flight so you don’t miss your plane.…

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Leveraged ETF decay is one of the hidden risks many traders overlook. Daily resets, volatility drag, and stacked leverage can quietly work against you — even when your directional thesis is right. Here’s why options traders should think twice before trading products like TQQQ, SQQQ, SOXL, and UVXY.

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A few weeks ago, a research paper out of MIT (the college) crossed my desk that most investors would have ignored. It was about worms. Specifically, it was about a team that had successfully mapped the entire brain of a microscopic worm — every neuron, every connection.  Then it laid out what it would take…

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In this piece, Keith Kaplan shows you some examples of signal-based trades that outperformed the S&P 500 by roughly 3-to-1… plus he's giving you access to a beta version of his revolutionary stock picking software.

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Earlier this week, during our Masters in Trading Live sessions, we walked through an emerging collision that almost nobody in the trading world is paying attention to yet: quantum computing versus cryptocurrency security.

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Major institutions are already incorporating these probability signals into their forecasting process.

And now we can see in real time how these markets are handicapping the outcomes of everything from potential military strikes to business acquisitions.

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Right now, the bull market isn’t broad — it’s just concentrated in key assets like energy stocks, crude, and industrial metals.

When volatility spikes across these asset classes at the same time, it tells you something important: institutional capital is repositioning away from risk in droves.

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When technology gets easier, margins compress. Complexity loses its premium, and adoption explodes. Profit pools shift. And that’s when money flows toward simplicity. AI is bringing simplicity online in a big way. It’s what I like to call AI’s “Wallpaper” Phase. You see, investors love the wiring phase: chip demand, GPU orders, data center build-outs,…

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I was ten years old the first time I saw Back to the Future in a movie theater. It was the summer of 1985. I remember sitting in that red fabric seat, feet barely flat on the floor, popcorn and Coke balanced carefully in my lap – no cup holders back then. The lights dimmed,…

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Markets move on belief. That’s why hype cycles often drive price action faster than fundamentals can justify. And it’s why the biggest edge in modern markets is rarely about being the smartest person in the room. It’s about knowing which signals to watch and catching the shift before the crowd.

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Right now, a powerful probability engine is shaping the next wave of market moves - whether most investors realize it or not. These real-money probability signals are often more reliable than analyst forecasts. And I’m going to show you how I use shifts in belief, before prices adjust, to identify high-probability setups in individual stocks.

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Let’s get one thing out of the way up front… Stocks don’t move because a number on a website ticks from 62% to 65%. Prediction markets don’t cause price action. That’s not how any of this works. But here’s what does matter—and what has always mattered: how people feel about the future. Especially when those…

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I had a conversation recently that stayed with me. Earlier this month, I made a decision. I wanted to know my members better. Every day I show up, talk to you, and answer questions in our Masters in Trading Discord community. I watch familiar usernames scroll by. These are people I’ve come to know. I…

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The long IPO winter is finally coming to an end. And today, it’s a new wave of AI startups leading the surge in public listings. Right now, companies like OpenAI (headquartered within Microsoft for now) and Anthropic are inching closer to public offerings that could break the IPO market wide open over the next year. And…

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The stocks that dominate headlines — from the Magnificent 7 to the latest AI darlings — tend to absorb all the market’s attention. Especially during earnings season, when price action feels loud, crowded, and obvious. But as I remind members of Masters in Trading every day I go live, the biggest opportunities rarely sit in…

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Why Financial Advisors Quietly Come to Me to Learn Options For as long as I’ve been coming to you live with Masters in Trading, there’s one thing most people constantly get wrong about me. Most people assume my work is aimed solely at individual traders. Now, don’t get me wrong. That claim is half true.…

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Most people come to the market just looking for answers to what seem like simple questions — “what should I buy,” “where’s the S&P going,” “what’s the next trade.”  After enough time — and enough scars — you realize the market doesn’t reward answers by themselves. It rewards understanding how to find those answers.  For…

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AI is forcing a complete rethink of the future of work and income. It’s all part of a much larger economic shift that’s unfolding faster than markets, policymakers, or most investors realize. Which means practically nobody's positioned for it… yet.

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I didn’t know it then, but the first steps I took onto the floor of Chicago Mercantile Exchange at 22 years old shaped everything that came after. That was where I learned what really separates traders who survive from traders who wash out. And it's precisely where I learned the mindset of a master trader...

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The holiday season is here and the markets are taking a pause. But that doesn’t mean we have to sit idle. While Wall Street is quiet, it’s the perfect time to sharpen our trading skills and learn strategies that can make us more profitable when the market reopens. So today I want to take this opportunity to tell you a story…

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If you’ve been following Masters in Trading Live for any length of time, you’ll know that I do my best to stick to the facts. I talk about risk.I talk about structure. I talk about process, positioning, and how professionals think. What I don’t do is come on and say: “Here’s where I think the…

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Volatility is a constant in the stock market. And it can be the biggest impediment to success if you don’t know how to manage it. Today, I’m breaking down the key terms and strategies every options trader needs to understand how we manage volatility over the life of an options trade. I also want to show you the exact tools we use to measure volatility in the stock market.

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It started with a blip on my options scanner — a surge of strange trades in a stock everyone had written off for dead. It led to one of the boldest calls of my career. And within months, that blip turned into a 10,000% eruption that made Wall Street tremble.

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It started with a blip on my options scanner — a surge of strange trades in a stock everyone had written off for dead. It led to one of the boldest calls of my career. And within months, that blip turned into a 10,000% eruption that made Wall Street tremble.

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Editor’s Note: JR here. On Monday, I went live with the biggest event in Masters in Trading history — The Profit Surge Event. I revealed all the details behind my winning approach to trading Unusual Options Activity (UOA). And I even provided some free stock picks to anyone who joined. I showed viewers the exact approach we’ve used…

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For the past three years, the market’s been climbing with a weight on its back. Now that weight is coming off.

And with more rate cuts likely ahead, these conditions are setting the stage for the next leg up in risk assets. If the market has been this resilient without a tailwind, just imagine what happens when it finally has one.

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In a year marked by tariff war drama and escalating geopolitical conflicts, the best edge any trader can get is the same intel that institutional traders, hedge funds, and investment banks all use to find market-beating trades. And I’ve got something very special planned to show you exactly how to gain that same edge they all have.

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Today, I'm giving you the story behind some of the biggest trades I've ever made... and the key investment trend I'm revealing in just a few days that could send your portfolio into overdrive.

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Back in 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent Wall Street into a frenzy with a single blog post. He made the boldest claim about AI’s future yet: “We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents join the workforce and materially change the output of companies.” He didn’t stop there. He also…

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History likes to play a tricks on us. When we read about the big events over the years that shape a generation, far too often it will make it seem as though it showed up one day out of the blue.

But when you start digging into the story, most “overnight success” stories usually took years to build.

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History likes to play a tricks on us. When we read about the big events over the years that shape a generation, far too often it will make it seem as though it showed up one day out of the blue.

But when you start digging into the story, most “overnight success” stories usually took years to build.

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Tucked away inside the research campuses of IBM and Los Alamos Laboratory, two researchers just unlocked one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of the century. And guess what? Almost no one is paying attention to it. Fair enough – even I had no idea until I did a little research. But trust me when I…

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There’s an old Wall Street saying: “Don’t fight the Fed.” What it means is simple. When the Federal Reserve is cutting rates and flooding the system with liquidity, you want to be long. When they’re hiking rates and tightening, you don’t want to be the one standing in front of that freight train. The Fed…

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Every generation has its watershed device.

And today, another revolutionary device is poised to introduce a new technological leap we’ll be talking about for decades to come.

When that happens, investors who see it early are the ones who will capture all the generational upside.

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After the longest inversion in history, the yield curve has snapped back into positive territory. Some pundits are calling it a sign of confidence. Others say it’s the prelude to a recession… 

Either way, it’s the bond market’s way of telling us one thing — “Pay attention!”

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