There are a lot of head-scratchers in this market right now.
High oil prices, rising inflation, weakness in half the Mag Seven, and a consumer that’s running out of money by the end of the month, according to Kraft Heinz’s CEO.
And yet, if you look up at the scoreboard, the S&P 500 is still near all-time highs.
When so many things don’t add up, you have to be cautious.
Especially when you’re viewing the market through a long-term investor’s lens.
Which is exactly why this is the perfect market to be trading non-correlated strategies, the kind that don’t get blown up by a hot economic release or a Trump tweet.
The kind of trades that make their money in a window of time so short the macro chaos doesn’t even matter.
Today Was a Prime Example
PPI dropped to 1.4% at 8:30 this morning, versus 0.5% expected. That’s the hottest monthly print since March 2022. Annual PPI now sits at 6%, the highest since December 2022. Core PPI came in at 1% against a 0.4% forecast.
The futures rally evaporated. The market reversed and went red. The financial media started running their “is the rally over?” segments before the open even hit.
And while all that was happening, I was focused on something else entirely…
I was selling my ORCL calls.
The Trade
Yesterday, during the broader sell-off, Oracle (ORCL) dropped enough to trigger my Stock Flip system. The stock fell 4.2% to close at $186.65, which cleared our 3.5% trigger threshold on ORCL.
That’s the setup we hunt every single day at 3:30 PM ET. A high-quality, large-cap name overreacts to the downside. The setup hits the trigger. The trade goes in.
We bought the ORCL May 15th $182.50 calls for $6.13 in premium at yesterday’s close.
This morning, with PPI ripping the futures lower and most traders running for cover, ORCL still opened higher. Why? Because yesterday’s drop was emotion, not fundamentals. Mean reversion did exactly what it always does on these names.
We sold the calls this morning for $8.75 in premium.
That’s a 42.7% gain in less than 24 hours on a trade that was completely insulated from the hot PPI print, the futures reversal, and whatever the Fed says next.
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Why This Strategy Works Right Now
Here’s the thing most traders are missing: when the macro picture is this confused, betting on direction is gambling.
You don’t know if today’s hot PPI means rate hikes are back, whether the consumer is really breaking the way Whirlpool suggests, or what the Fed will do at the next meeting.
But here’s the beauty… You don’t have to know.
The Stock Flip system doesn’t care about any of that. It looks for one specific thing: a top-30 large-cap name overreacting to the downside on a single session, with a customized trigger percentage tuned to that stock’s volatility profile.
When the trigger hits, we buy short-dated calls before the close. We hold overnight. We sell on the open when mean reversion delivers.
Yesterday’s ORCL was a textbook flip. The system works because human emotion in the market hasn’t changed in 50 years… and it isn’t about to start changing tomorrow.
If you’re set on betting blind, you’d be better off taking the Over on Shohei Ohtani’s strikeout line vs the Giants tonight (6.5 if you were wondering).
Your Action Plan
Pretty simple… keep crushing the market, no matter which direction it wants to head.
ORCL was just another example of how we can turn profits in any market condition. Many more ahead.
The macro is a mess, and the market is volatile, but we’re still sitting on another flipping winner.