Brent Kochuba of Spot Gamma joins the podcast to discuss his view that there will likely be an equities rally into the March 17 options expiration.

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Content Highlights

• Stocks have been selling off with the Nasdaq now officially in a bear market. But the guest is short-term bullish for reasons that can be traced to market makers hedging counterparty risk (2:39);
• What about all the uncertainty with Russia-Ukraine? (5:57);
• Stocks are up since the start of the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, likely because markets were hedged going in due to Fed tightening concerns (9:28);
• What to make of the March 9 rally? A brief primer on gamma, vanna, and charm aka delta decay (11:02);
• Similar gamma squeezes caused rallies in the past around options expiry (15:20);
• Background on the guest (21:31);
• The hedges investors have put on ahead of the FOMC meeting next week should lead to more risk-off. The lower bound for the S&P 500 is 4,100 (24:36);
• Recent days have seen a change in options flow: Nvidia (NVDA) and crypto names such as Coinbase (COIN) have benefited along with Amazon (AMZN) and the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) (26:50);
• Liquidity is important and recent months have seen some of it leave the system (30:06).

More Information on the Guest

• Website: SpotGamma.com;
• Twitter: @SpotGamma;
• YouTube: SpotGamma;

Not intended as investment advice. Do your own research, make your own decisions!