The market tried to scare everybody yesterday. It did not work.
The SPY opened up around 743, then fell off a cliff all the way down to 723. That is a 20-point swing in a single day, a full 3% from high to low, with the VIX sitting at 20 like nothing was wrong.
If you were holding stock through that, it was ugly. Green to red, red to worse, your stomach in your throat all afternoon.
I was not holding through it. I was trading it. And that is the whole difference.
Here is what I told my room while it was happening. This is a trend break, but it is not the easy kind. Back at the end of 2025, the market cracked because the momentum had already bled out of it.
This is different.
The momentum is still in there, which means it whips both ways, violent and fast, up as hard as it comes down. So you do not plant a flag and argue. You never argue with the bulls, that one rarely ends in your favor.
You stay nimble, you take what the move gives you, and you do not fall in love with a position.
That is the part nobody tells you about a day like yesterday. The same chaos that has the buy-and-hold crowd white-knuckling their accounts is exactly what I wait for.
I do not need the market to go up. I do not need to guess the close. I need it to move. And yesterday it would not stop moving.
So we traded it. I had a setup cooking right into the back half of the day, and I will be straight with you the way I always am, it was a high-risk one. Options were pricey with the clock running down, and I said so out loud before anyone put a dime on it.
Some folks took the conservative version and grabbed their quick win. Some held for more. Some broke even and walked away flat, and you know what? That is fine.
That is the whole point of how I trade. You are never trapped. You take what the day hands you and you go home clean.
And plenty of people did very well. Marine Mike was up 500% on his last two.
Rodney got in around 80 cents and out at a buck fifty. Duncan, only his second day with us, stacked two winners in a row. Green all over the place, on a day the rest of Wall Street spent hiding under the desk.
I did all of this from France, by the way, jet-lagged, with a spider doing laps around my desk the entire session. I refused to kill him, because spiders are good luck, and I was not about to argue with good luck on a day like that.
That is what this market is right now, and it is not slowing down. We had CPI this morning, and the biggest IPO in history hitting Friday with SpaceX.
A whole cornucopia of chaos, as I told Mark, a southern buffet of setups. For somebody holding and praying, that is terrifying. For somebody trading it the right way, it is opportunity stacked on opportunity.
And for the first time, you can trade right alongside me.
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Today at 3pm ET, I am throwing the doors wide open to the public, free, for three days.
It is called the 72-Hour Payday Blitz, and I am running it with Mark Sebastian.
You will not be watching from the outside. You will be in the room trading with us, in real time, on the same setups, hearing the exact moment we get in and the exact moment we take the money and walk.
I will be straight, same as always. My last 80 trades added up to 894% total gains over the first five months of the year, and that counts the winners and the losers both.
Not every trade wins. The skill is stacking the fast wins and cutting the losers before they hurt you. That is the one thing almost nobody teaches, and for three days you get to do it right next to me.
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Rock On,
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