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.
MM22 - How to Roll a Synthetic Long (and Why the Math Has to Work First)
Reminder - Not financial advice. This is one of the most common questions I get, and I completely understand why. A lot of you are sitting on synth...
MM21 - Support Levels I Am Watching This Week
Reminder - Not financial advice. I wanted to give you an updated look at support and resistance on the stocks we have all been tracking. The market...
MM20: QQQ Broke the 200 Moving Average. Here is What I am Doing About It.
I want to take a moment to walk you through a few things I am looking at in the market right now. QQQ has broken the 200 moving average. It has bro...
MM19 - Adding to My Google Modified Synthetic Long at the 200
As always, not financial advice but I wanted to take a moment to let you know what I did at the close of trading on Friday. I am adding to my Googl...
MM18 - MSL War: Why One Modified Synthetic Long Works and the Other Doesn't
Today is an unusual day. I have two trades I am looking at β both discussed by Invest Answers this week β and I actually like both stocks. But the ...
MM17 - How I Spend My 30-45 Minutes a Day Trading Options
Everyone asks me the same thing: How do you spend your time every day? What are you actually doing in that 30-45 minutes? Β So I decided to show yo...
MM16 - The Market Is Giving You Garbage. Here Is How I Use It.
A question keeps coming up β in Q&A sessions, in emails, in DMs: "I have a synthetic long in Tesla for December 2027. Should I roll it forward to D...
MM15 - Rolling Calls and Adjusting a Modified Synthetic Long
The market gave us a lot to work with today, and I want to walk you through exactly what I did β and more importantly, why I did it. What the Chart...
MM14 - Racehorses vs. Workhorses β Know the Difference Before You Sell a Single Option
This is one of the most powerful distinctions I can teach you, and once you see it, you'll never look at a chart the same way again. In the last Ma...
MM13 - Selling Calls on ALAB: 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...
MM11 - Rolling Forward in Time: 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 ...