3 New Trade Ideas For You

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Don Kaufman
December 03, 2025

Don Kaufman here.

I was on Trading 360 this morning, and honestly, this market feels "slop tastic" right now. 

Nothing matters - not financials, not energy, not retail. Nothing matters but tech. And we're literally starting to see rotations within the tech sector itself.

Everyone's asking about a Santa rally into year-end. Here's what I told them - forget Santa. 

The Fed next week is going to cause serious volatility. 

Jerome Powell's out in a couple months. What's he got to lose? Look for hawkish tones to hit this marketplace hard.

But here's what got interesting. I walked through three specific setups that caught my attention:

Caterpillar - This chart is absolutely spectacular. I'm much more of an options geek, and my anticipation is that call buyers will rush in at these all-time highs and cause a gamma squeeze. I like to hop on board with these types of gamma squeezes. 

Sometimes riding the coattails of explosive moves is exactly where you want to be.

Intel - I'm getting baird up here. This is simply too far, too fast. From 32.50 to 43.50? It's an opportunity to fade this. The technicals are incredibly bullish, but stocks have to retrench.

There's always going to be a two-sided trade in this marketplace.

Tesla - Look, I'm a fan of every product they've made. I've owned almost every product they've made. But I'm still going to bear up in the near term. Tesla has channeled between 300-350 for most of this year, and I think it pulls back into that channel again.

This isn't about fundamentals or valuation - it's purely technical.

In this volatility environment, duration matters more than ever. I'm adjusting my approach based on what the tape is actually telling me, not what everyone hopes will happen.

Want to see the exact strikes, spreads, and timing on all three? The full Trading 360 segment breaks down every detail of how I'm playing this rotation while everyone else chases Santa.

To your success,

Don Kaufman

P.S. While everyone's betting on Santa, I'm betting on Powell's parting shots. Sometimes the obvious contrarian play is the right play.