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There are two ways to trade options flow. One is reactive. One is deliberate. And only one of them stacks the odds in your favor.
The reactive approach goes like this: You see a big order come in, you look at the chart and you ask yourself why someone just paid for that. It is fast. It feels exciting. And sometimes it works.
But it is better when you have something in mind.
That is the approach I walked through on Monday’s Profit Panel when we talked about Enphase Energy (ENPH). We had already been doing our due diligence — charts, technical analysis, sector strength work, the stuff we do every morning. Then a flow came through that corroborated what we were already thinking.
That is a completely different setup than chasing.
What Corroborating Flow Really Means
When you already have a thesis — you have marked your levels, you know the sector, you have done the work — and someone shows up with a large order that aligns with your view, that is confirmation. Not certainty. Just confirmation that you are not alone in seeing the setup.
Sometimes you just see flows and think, yeah, that is a good trade. But it is powerful when the flow lines up with a name you already had on your radar.
Sometimes that alignment even leads to real-time wins, like when a trader in our community nailed Rocket Lab USA (RKLB) and pulled in $1,100. That kind of result reinforces what preparation plus confirmation can do.
That is the difference between reacting to the tape and trading with conviction backed by preparation.
The Two-Tiered Framework You Can Copy
Here is how to think about it:
Tier 1: Do your homework. Every morning, look at sector strength. Mark your key levels. Know what is working and what is not. Build a short watchlist of names where the setup makes sense.
Tier 2: Watch for confirmation. When the action starts, you need to watch this closely because you always want to wait for the confirms to go. If a big order hits one of the names you have already prepared for, you are not scrambling.
You are simply deciding whether the confirmation lines up with the levels and thesis you established earlier.
The flow is not the idea — it is the nudge.
You can trade flow reactively, and I do that sometimes. But when the flow lines up with the work you have already done, that is when the trade feels less like a gamble and more like a plan.
To better trading,
Alex Reid
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Tomorrow’s jobs report could be one of the biggest market-moving events of the week.
Depending on what the numbers show, we could see a sharp relief rally… or another wave of selling as traders rethink the path of interest rates.
Instead of trying to predict which way the market will move…
I’m going to show you the overnight strategy I use to prepare for either outcome.
During today’s session, I’ll walk you through the daily signal that helps me identify potential overnight opportunities before the next trading day begins.
It’s a setup I’ve spent months testing privately, producing a 76% win rate with an average holding time of just one day.
Of course, no strategy wins every time, and I can’t promise future results.
But if you’d like to see exactly how this setup works… and why I believe the next opportunity could arrive as soon as this week… I hope you’ll join me this afternoon.
Disclaimer: We develop tools and strategies to the best of our ability, but no one can guarantee the future. All performance results are from the Alex Reid private testing, where the strategy had a 76% overall win rate and an average return, winners and losers included, of 29.5%, with an average winner return of 48% and an average hold time of 1 day.
