Market Minutes
How Laura thinks about the market, delivered to your inbox in real-time as markets move.
Market Minutes is Laura's educational breakdown of what is happening in the market and why it matters. Each issue covers the key levels, the setups she is watching, and the concepts behind the moves. This is not a trade alert service. This is how a 28-year options trader reads the market, explained in a way that makes you a better trader whether you follow her strategies or not.
Selling Calls on ALAB β How I Bring in Income While I Wait
Let me walk you through a trade I'm looking at right now β selling a call on Astera Labs (ALAB). This is a great example of reading the chart, iden...
How I Use the 3-to-1 Rule to Find Trades That Actually Work
I want to show you something I do all the time that has nothing to do with options β and it's one of the most important concepts I can teach you. I...
Rolling Forward in Time β A New Concept That Can Save Your Trade
Today I want to introduce a concept we've never discussed before: rolling forward in time. This is different from rolling down to a lower strike β ...
Planning Ahead β My Watchlist, My Levels, and My Next Moves
I want to take you through something I do regularly that most traders skip: planning ahead before the market forces you to react. Let me show you w...
Selling a Collar on Circle β How I Protect Gains Without Giving Up the Upside
I want to introduce you to a strategy I use a lot, especially at moments like this when a stock has had a massive recovery and I'm thinking: How do...
Rolling My AMD Call Lower β Patience Meets Opportunity
Rolling is becoming one of the most relevant strategies in this market, and I expect we're going to have even more opportunities in the days ahead....
My Nvidia Modified Synthetic Long β And Why I Didn't Go Full Synthetic
I've been busy today. The first trade I want to walk you through is a modified synthetic long I just put on in Nvidia. The 4-hour IADSS chart is te...
Stop Trading for the Sake of Trading
This is one of the most important topics I can share with you, and it comes up every single time the market looks like this: consolidation, noise, ...
I Just Bought a Bitcoin LEAP β Here's the Full Breakdown
I just entered a trade on IBIT (the Bitcoin ETF), and I want to walk you through exactly why I did it, how I priced it, and β most importantly β wh...
A Quick Shortcut to Identify ATM, ITM, and OTM Options
If you're new to options, one of the first things that trips people up is figuring out which options are at the money, in the money, or out of the ...
The Market Is Telling You to Wait β Here's What I'm Watching
A lot of you have been emailing me asking: what exactly did I see that made me say the market was heavy and struggling? Let me show you. Pull up a ...
I Just Entered Google β Here's Why
Google just flashed a signal I haven't seen in a while, and I couldn't sit on the sidelines any longer. For the first time in months, our IADSS cha...