How to Read a Market That Has No Story A market with no news can still move plenty. I am wrapping up a month of trading from France, down to my final few days before I am back in the office this week, and the biggest surprise was the sleep. I was always the gal who bragged that she ran on four hours and a tank of energy, and out here I have slept like it was a competitive sport. Bed at midnight, up at ten, naps in the middle. I think I caught up on about ten years of it, and I am not even a little sorry. Monday had nothing on the calendar to explain it. There was no headline and no data behind it. And it has still moved, gapping up at the open, running, then handing most of that gap back by early afternoon. No story

Greetings From the South of France, You Guys The trade fired yesterday while I was wandering around Monaco. Let me set the scene, because I have to tell you about this place. I am posted up in the South of France right now, taking a little camera rest, and yesterday I took a day trip over to Monte Carlo. There is a beach club there called La Rose des Vents, right on the Mediterranean, and Gucci took the whole thing over for the summer. The loungers, the parasols, the towels, even a little Gucci bicycle by the sand. All of it wrapped in this gorgeous floral print. So I am sitting there feeling extremely fancy, and I find out the story behind the print. It is called Flora, and Gucci made it back in 1966 as a gift for Grace Kelly. Yes, honey, that Grace Kelly, the actress who became

The market made its move in the first three minutes today. SPY opened around 739 and flushed. Right off the bell, no warning, just straight down. The PCE number ran hot, a three-year high, and the sellers were gone before most people even had their charts up. Hot damn, what a morning. And here is the best part. We were ready for it. You know how I trade. I do not sit and stare at a screen all day waiting and praying. I find the zone before the open, I mark the level, and then I wait for the market to come to me. Enter the zone, buy the zone, sell the zone. That is the whole thing, love. When SPY broke down through our level this morning, that was the green light, and the put was on. Then I just let it work. And oh my god, did it