Hey Traders,
Take a deep breath.
If you’re reading this, you just lived through history.
Because what we saw this week? That’s the kind of chaos that ends up in trading textbooks.
We just had one of the most volatile 7-day periods ever.
The top five of the biggest intraday point swings since 1967 happened in the past 7 calendar days.
And that’s not even counting March — which threw its own haymakers at us.
To say we’ve been through the wringer is an understatement.
Just two days ago, I told you about a bearish trade I was in on NVDA…
Let me be clear: Being in a bearish trade right after one of the biggest single-day rallies I’ve ever seen isn’t exactly the best position to be in.
The trade had moved against is in a massive, historic way.
But guess what…? It didn’t matter.
When NVDA Went Off Like a Rocket…
Let me walk you through what happened:
On Tuesday, I issued a bearish NVDA trade:
Sell to open NVDA 115 Call
Buy to open NVDA 116 Call
On Tuesday, NVDA cooperated in a major way.
It dropped. And dropped. And dropped some more. By the end of the day, it closed at about $96.
That’s gave us nearly a 20% cushion between the stock and our strike price!
Then on Wednesday afternoon, BOOM! Trump dropped the news that tariffs were being rolled back (except for China)… and the market — along with NVDA — exploded higher.
SPY had one of the biggest up moves in history… and NVDA rocketed all the way to $115! (yes, right up to our strike price)
That’s a 20% move in under 24 hours. On news.
Most folks would’ve been blown out.
But not us.
Why This Trade Survived
This wasn’t luck. It was design.
As I told you in yesterday’s video: Strategy selection is king in this market.
And sure enough, strategy saved this trade.
✅ We had the trend on our side.
✅ We gave ourselves a massive cushion.
✅ We had multiple layers of resistance overhead.
✅ And best of all? We had time on our side.
Because after tagging our short strike for a blip (literally less than a few minutes)… NVDA immediately fell back below $115.
Thursday? NVDA opened around $109.
Friday? As I write this with less than an hour to go till markets close, it’s still hovering there.
This is what I meant yesterday when I said:
Forget stock picking — strategy is the new king.
Because while others are getting chopped up trying to pick the “right stock”… we’re sitting on a high-probability setup that just bent but didn’t break.
Final Thoughts: Why We Trade This Way
I couldn’t have scripted a better real-world example.
The strategy didn’t care about the news.
It didn’t care about NVDA’s 20% rip.
It gave us the breathing room we needed — and then the market did what it always does after a big overreaction: it calmed down.
This week was wild — And not just regular wild, but historically wild.
But it proved something I’ve been saying for years:
You don’t need to guess.
You don’t need to panic.
You just need a plan that holds up when things get nuts.
That’s how we keep winning — even when the market goes off the rails.
Trade well,
Jack Carter
P.S. Here’s another solid strategy I’m standing by through all this volatility.
