Thursday decides your 0DTE future (1)

Holy crap.

I'm sitting here on this island with my old computer that keeps freezing up on me, watching the S&P futures cycle through a hundred-point range overnight, and I just executed something that's never been possible before.

A Friday-to-Monday zero DTE butterfly.

This didn't exist until this week. Like, literally couldn't be traded.

And I just crushed it. Paid 43 cents, got out for two bucks. Five minutes.

Here's what happened

The volatility beast got absolutely pissed off in the middle of the night. Volume was nothing less than magnificently large - we're talking 566,000 contracts in the first half hour.

I'm looking at this new expiration schedule - Monday, Wednesday, Friday - and I'm thinking, "Nobody's ever done a Friday-to-Monday butterfly before."

So I did it.

I traded for the lower edge of the expected move. Butterfly centered around 4412. When we hit 4415, I was like, "Okay, I'm in range. I'm not gonna wait."

He shoots, he scores!

And I'm just excited because ain't nobody has ever thought of this crap before, and we're already profitable on it. That is awesome.

Why this changes things

The door is now wide open. All these monsters of tech - they're all gonna get drawn to edges of expected moves. And throughout the course of the week, you're gonna get multiple opportunities to place butterflies on them.

But here's what nobody's telling you about zero DTE:

The edge - by far and away the biggest edge - lies in the BUY side of options, not the sell side.

People are like, "Oh well, I sell iron condors in zero DTE." There's zero expected return on selling certain trades in zero DTE. Zero. Which means really straightforward things don't necessarily work.

You're gonna have to think a little bit.

The market's scared sh*tless

You wanna see something wild? Google has earnings Wednesday, and they actually REMOVED the Wednesday expiration entirely.

They're literally saying "stand the hell back" because of gamma risk. Those Wednesday expirations? Not even available.

And brokers are now taking control of people's accounts because they're forgetting about zero DTE trades. 

I'm serious. They're stepping in and closing positions because people are too stupid to manage their own risk.

Don't be stupid about this

Look, I'm teaching all the criteria behind these Friday-to-Monday setups in Don-DTE. Four weeks of education, live trading, all the edge calculations. 

All sessions are recorded. There are two live sessions left, including one on Feb. 13 where I will be trading these live for 3 hours. 

It’s never been a better time to get in. 

Because like I said, you're gonna have to think a little bit.

But if you're gonna sit there and keep doing what everyone else is doing while the game is changing, that's on you.

To your success,

Don Kaufman