Video summary
The video begins with a live day trading session for Friday, August 7th, where the host analyzes pre-market data showing significant gains across major indices like the S&P and NASDAQ, alongside strong performance in commodities such as gold and silver. The trader emphasizes a disciplined approach that relies solely on price action rather than technical indicators, focusing heavily on risk management during the critical first hour of trading to avoid losses driven by greed. As the market opens, specific attention is given to individual stock movers like Airbnb following its earnings report and various tech giants including Nvidia, AMD, and Tesla, while noting mixed performance in sectors like oil and natural gas which showed divergent movements compared to other assets.
Throughout the session, the host executes several complex option strategies using a proprietary tool called Flux, specifically targeting zero-day-to-expiration (0DTE) iron condors and double calendar spreads on major indices like the S&P 500. A significant portion of the trading activity centers around SpaceX stock, where the trader enters positions in call options to capitalize on upward momentum, scaling out profits at various price targets ranging from $280 to $450 as the stock pushes through new highs and previous resistance levels. The commentary highlights the volatility inherent in chip stocks during this period, noting that while some names like PLTR surged significantly, others faced selling pressure despite overall market strength, requiring constant adjustments to stop-losses and profit-taking orders.
As the trading day progresses into its later stages, the host discusses integrating new features into his software ecosystem, such as copying trades directly between different analytical tools within the Flux platform, while also sharing insights on using relative strength metrics beyond traditional indices like the S&P 500 to gauge market health amidst heavy weighting in technology sectors. The session concludes with a successful exit strategy for the final SpaceX contract at $6 per share after holding through minor pullbacks, resulting in a net profit of approximately $1,700 on an initial position size of twenty lots. Ultimately, the trader wraps up by stating that no further trades will be taken for the day but remains vigilant about monitoring specific stocks like Tesla and PLTR before signing off to join viewers for their next scheduled trading hour.
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Wake up. Wake up. It's time to get
going. Got to catch those runners taking
off like a If the volume spikes, then
it's time to trade. Mighty 90 setting
up. It's time to get paid. Navigation
trading on the mic. Time to get focused.
We don't need any indicator. Hocus
pocus. It's all about the price. Just
watch it move. Manage your risk so you
don't lose. First hour of trading is all
we need. Focus on the patience and
forget about greed.
Good morning everyone. Welcome to
today's day trading live stream. Today
is Friday, August 7th. We've got the S&P
futures up 24 points. NASDAQ up 237,
Russell up 21, and the Dow's up 58.
NASDAQ the strongest, followed by the
Russell.
Gold, metals are on the move. Uh, gold's
up over 2 and 1.5%, silver's up 4 and
a.5%. Notes and bonds both up about a
third. 10-year yield down about 68%. Oil
down a third. Natural gas up almost 2%.
Soybeans, wheat, and corn all up less
than 1%. Euro and the pound both up
about a third. and Bitcoin up 1.2%.
VIX up almost 1% currently at 15.29.
We had some employment data pre-market.
The market kind of pushed up, but now
it's given it up. S&P back below
previous day high. NASDAQ a little above
its previous day high and the Russell
rejected right at its previous day high.
Biggest individual stock movers Airbnb
had earnings. It's up 6%. Nebius is up
five. Cryptos are up. MSTR is up four.
Uh SNDK is up four. Coin up two and a
half. MU up two and a half. Hood up two
and a half.
AMD is up two.
Few little reds. Not nothing over 1%
lower. Verizon's down 1% almost.
Costco's down about a half percent.
Netflix down 1%.
A lot of green. A lot of green on the
screen.
See if this can hold it. Uh, looking
like a little head fig so far after the
NFP data.
I will be trading a 1DTE iron condor
near the open.
I will also be trading a 67 double
calendar.
We'll use my handy dandy flux tool to
set up my 67
to be able to quickly copy it over to
toss.
Got a couple new updates
on the flux capacitor coming out today.
I'll share later.
Got about one minute till the market
open. Looks like the S&P
expected range today a little over 40
points.
Yeah, Nor this whole this whole uh
becoming a software developer is a
blessing and a curse.
I like it, but holy moly, it's a
it's a time consumer.
I just I have so many ideas floating
around in my head now. I just want to
put it put it into the system.
All right, market opens in 10 seconds.
Market's coming down into the open.
There is the bell.
I clarified nor that it's a 1DTE with
Monday options in my trade plan. Smarty
pants
one trading day. Is that better?
All right. Going to try to get filled on
a
67 here.
Ah, I missed my fill.
Was trying to trying to get a better
price and I missed it.
All right, there we go.
Get these posted.
And I got filled on the 1DTE.
S&P NASDAQ holding above previous day
high.
Oh, I did not get filled on my 1DT.
I post I didn't post all my orders for
the
67. There we go.
Uh, let's see. Why is my Why is my one
DTE not firing?
Okay. Uh, something something's going on
with O.
Give me a minute here. Got to go old
school. Sometimes you got to go old
school, my friends.
Entering a trade manually,
30 wide.
NASDAQ had the biggest bounce, still the
strongest. Russell acting weakest.
Okay, one DTE posted.
Airbnb is pushing. It's up 13% now.
Is that all-time highs in Airbnb?
At least recent going back to 2023.
MSTR pushing above pre-market high.
SpaceX is pumping up 4%.
I'm going to load some calls in SpaceX
here.
Zero DTE 7745s.
Wow, these are pricey.
Oh, never mind. That was That was SPX,
not SPCX.
Scratch that.
That uh price that strike wouldn't match
either.
7745. Uh how about the 120s in the
SpaceX? That's a little more in line.
watching SpaceX.
I'm going to take SpaceX.
Kind of jumped on me. Filled at 209.
See if we can get a push through highs
here.
Try to take some off at 250.
Filled 250.
Nice. Don't like my fill, but
like the move worked.
Put another target at 280.
Uh Net. Yeah, that's the 67 I do every
Friday morning.
I like to do a 34 on Monday morning.
There's a 280 on SpaceX. 34 on Monday
morning and a 67 on Friday morning.
Russell
getting some legs now.
No, all my DC time machines I started
around 40 delta and then I tweak it
based on current environment. Looking at
the risk graph,
Nvidia kind of giving it up.
I don't Well, I don't trade the old I
don't All my calendar stuff is DC time
machines now. So, I'm not sure what you
mean. I don't I haven't traded any
just straight up calendars in a while.
AMD. Someone just somebody asked
earlier, do I have the Yeah, abosh the
AMD calendar. I do still have it was up
this morning.
So, I thought I was maybe going to be
able to book some profits today, but AMD
is kind of falling apart now.
Back in the red by a couple hundred
bucks.
SpaceX. A little pullback.
MSTR.
getting back up into that zone
on the daily chart where it kind of
had some reactions.
Time to get back in touch, Abash. Get
back in touch with reality.
S&P just chopping. NASDAQ just chopping.
Russell pushing.
SpaceX, you going to give us any more or
is that it?
My options are back down to entry on my
remaining. I did 20, got out of 15. So,
I've got five left.
But those five left are right at my
entry.
Let's see. Tesla's acting strong also
pulling back now a little bit.
Google's acting weak. Amazon strong
above previous day high.
Order filled.
Microsoft will retest a previous day Hi.
SpaceX trying to bounce again.
PLTR is up 5%.
Tesla,
look at that little Tzy go
with volume.
Nvidia trying to bounce back.
Apple's weak.
Meta's in the red by a little bit.
Chips are a little weak, but starting to
bounce.
MU and AMD just above unchanged. Same
with SNDK.
See if SpaceX can give us another push
here.
There's a new high.
Let's get a Let's get a mirror of the
first candle on the 15minute back to
back.
Tesla's still pushing.
Yeah, I think what I'm going to do,
Bosch, is I'm going to have a video
library of the different features kind
of broken down into like I don't know
like five to 10 minute videos and it'll
be on there'll be a section on the
actual app where those are located so
you can kind of
reference different features of it.
Yeah, it's kind of turning into a little
bit of a monster.
All right, SpaceX rejecting a little
bit.
Russell rejecting
just below previous day high.
S&P back below previous day high.
Tesla doesn't care. No rejection out of
Tesy.
Microsoft nice bounce off of previous
day high.
Amazon looks like it may want to go
Is there a way to take trades from the
calendar spread to the analyzer?
Um, yeah, I do want to integrate
something like that.
I mean, obviously you can just set up
the
Well, we got the Yeah, you got the I
see. Yeah, if if you're just clicking on
a specific
pair that you want, just copying that
over to the analyzer. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
yeah, I'll definitely make that happen.
I've been trying to think through how to
integrate that.
And then yeah, Joseph T, what you said
as well,
we can take a we can copy and move it to
toss, but the other thing I want to do
is be able to take a copy link from toss
and put it in the analyzer,
if that's what you mean.
Yep. Yep.
Yeah, there goes Amazon.
SpaceX trying to pop back up.
Yeah, I didn't like Trade Modeler. The
ultimate trade modeler. I like the flux
analyzer.
Tesla's still pumping.
Have you not seen Back to the Future,
Chris?
It all started with the DC time machine,
Chris.
do yourself a favor and go watch
go watch uh Back to the Future this
weekend.
Greatest movie of the 80s.
Waterfilled Tub Time Machine is a good
one, too.
All right, SpaceX new highs.
But my options are basically at my
second profit target. I need to push
quickly on these zero DTE
quickly.
Anybody take Amazon or Microsoft?
Both of those were nice little previous
day high re retests.
I was already in SpaceX so I didn't take
one but both nice
Abash. Nice. Jonathan W's in Microsoft.
Yeah, Tesla would have been a hard one
to catch. It just kind of ripped
chopped for a few minutes, I guess. But
yeah, that should be that should be
pretty easy, Joseph T. I agree.
Have another little button next to the
broker copy buttons.
Tesla's trying to give a back-to back
15minute candle like the first.
SpaceX
still ticking new highs.
Back to the Future 2 is my favorite of
the three
when he goes into the future.
PLTR. Yeah, PLTR is pumping.
Let's see. The chip stocks are still
just kind of kind of weak.
Chips kind of weak. Indices just choppy.
But the mags,
the mags are showing some strength.
Amazon, Microsoft,
Tesla, and then SpaceX
and PLTR.
PLTR up almost 7% now.
Is there like a MAG 7 index? Does
anybody know? Those are like a mag 7
ETF.
Is it mags
fngu
mags
kind of volume about a half million of
volume
I'm just I need something to use for
like relative strength and weakness
because the indices S&P and NASDAQ don't
really work anymore
with the whole
market cap of the chips.
Well, I use SMH for the chips, but
All right, SpaceX little pullback again
for memory. Okay.
SNDK is bleeding. MU is bleeding. AVGO
at lows. AMD still chopping around
unchanged. Intel at lows.
SMH going through lows.
Man, every time SpaceX dips, my options
just drain. I'm below my entry now on my
last few runners.
order filled.
If I would have been scalping,
definitely would have been some little
dips and pops. Could have
worked in SpaceX.
I don't want to give up too much on
these runners,
but I don't want to cut it too short
either. Tesla finally getting a
pullback.
There we go. Dip trying to get bought up
in SpaceX a little bit.
Wow, Nebius gave it up.
Nebus was up like 6%.
Now it's down two and a half.
SpaceX new highs. Let's go.
Let's rip.
None of this little take a new high and
pull back stuff. I need a rip.
Just to rip your face off through new
highs.
Uh, how do I do that? Copy link. Share
list.
Copy link. Will that work? I guess.
Let me know if that works. P Rob.
Be back in one minute.
Tesla big pullback now.
SpaceX.
Higher highs and higher lows.
Price
is still below my second profit target
that I got filled on at 280
with the zero DTE premium decay
softy. Another retest of previous day
high.
Nvidia just very choppy.
Amazon ticked that new high but not much
follow through.
picked a good horse this morning in
SpaceX.
It's kind of holding up the best besides
let's say like PLTR
is definitely the
strongest.
None of the cryptos could really hold
their
or give much follow through.
Bitcoin coming down to previous day high
Do you guys see that post in the day
trading chat about Leo? He's back.
He's got 400 million. He's ready to He's
going to use 10 times leverage this time
to get his money back.
The comments on that Twitter post are
pretty funny.
Wow, Tesla really giving it up now.
S&P is going through lows. NASDAQ
through lows.
Chips dragging down the indices.
Banks are weak, too.
SpaceX new highs.
All
right, I'll try to take a couple more
off at
330.
Options got up to 310. There's 325.
Come on, hit it.
How about 310?
All right. Got out of some at 310. I've
got three left.
Order filled.
Put an another order at 380 to take
another one off. Order filled.
Watson, what's your unusual volume? Is
that pre-market or anytime or what? What
is it? Post a screenshot if you can, if
you don't mind.
Microsoft now pushing below previous day
high.
All three indices now below previous day
high.
SpaceX and PLTR,
they don't care. PLTR is up over 8%.
SpaceX up almost seven.
There's 380 filled. Got two left.
Put one at 450.
Just kind of scaling out into strength
here.
Well, it doesn't look like I'm going to
get assigned on my short puts I did in
SpaceX for earnings
on the 115s. We're up to 122.
So, those puts are up about
50% now.
All right, I'm going to go ahead and
get out of my SpaceX if it drops below
that previous down close candle
right here. That's my line.
New highs.
indices going through lows.
Chips falling.
Do you guys see the new terapab deal
that Tesla's building in Texas?
Holy moly, that's a crazy complex.
Order filled
Still got my order at 450.
Options are trading around four. SpaceX.
So the lower number is the specific bar
compared to the exact. Okay, cool.
SpaceX filled at 450.
So, so MSTR
was trading at 2.9 time or three times
the red box. So that's three times
normal.
Is that is that correct?
Cool.
Nice.
All right, I got one SpaceX left.
Let's see if I can get six bucks for it.
Tesla now below previous day high.
SNDK is now down five. AMD down two. MU
down three.
Yeah, exactly, Watson. I mean, I that
that's how indicators should be used,
right? Like it just gives you an easier
way to view something
instead of how most people use them as
trying to predict something.
All right, I got my last final contract
at six bucks.
If I would have done some ads here on
these little dips, it would have been a
really nice trade. What What am I up
here? I'm still up 1,700.
Starting with 20 lot.
Options are at 575. Come and get me,
baby. Come and get my $6.
You know you want it.
I'm going to lower it to 580
right here at the top of this candle.
One more tick. Give it to me. Boom.
580 filled and out. That was beautiful.
That was a beauty. PLTR is still making
new highs. Anybody take PLTR and
anything?
I mean, you had one little pause there.
Not really a
not an entry that I would have taken,
but
yeah, exactly. I don't Yeah, there's not
really a good entry unless you're just
using an EMA or something. All right,
all that's a wrap. One and done.
Uh, doubt I'll take anything else on the
day trade front, but I'll keep an eye on
it this morning. If I do, I'll post in
the trade channel. Otherwise, I will see
you all in power hour. Cheers.