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I’ve been watching something fascinating play out in the market, and it’s reshaping how traders need to think. 0DTE (zero days till expiration) has become its own force — a driver strong enough to counteract wave after wave of bearish catalysts that, in a different era, would have dragged the market sharply lower.
We’ve had AI disruption concerns, labor market softening, geopolitical flare-ups, a new Fed chair, political noise and even fresh tensions with Iran. Yet the market keeps snapping back as if determined to fight its way to stability.
This resilience isn’t just surprising — it’s redefining what intraday pressure and momentum mean. In a landscape that seems full of reasons for the market to lose its grip, price keeps finding its footing right in the middle of the range, refusing to break.
The Monday Morning Reversal Pattern
A pattern has been showing up repeatedly: When we come into a Monday with heavy 0DTE flow, the play has been almost painfully straightforward.
Buy the dip immediately — and get rewarded within hours.
Weekend news creates the gap down, but intraday options flow pulls price right back up, often filling the entire gap. This one-day positioning overwhelms otherwise legitimate selling pressure.
This behavior makes traditional cause-and-effect logic harder to rely on. Even commodities like oil — which is heavily influenced by supply, demand and geopolitical maneuvering — have been whipping around in ways that spill into broader market sentiment.
When oil makes fast directional moves driven by global headlines, those ripple effects collide with 0DTE flows. The result is an environment where short-term forces overpower longer-term fundamentals.
Trading What You See, Not What Makes Sense
That’s why traders need to stay flexible.
In a market that shrugs off bearish catalysts, reacts sharply to geopolitical energy shocks and still gets pulled back by aggressive 0DTE flow, rational expectations often lose out to actual tape behavior.
You can think the market should break down — but it keeps clawing back with surprising strength.
Volatility trading has also taken on a different character. Every time the VIX flares up, traders step in to short it, leaning into the expectation that these spikes will be brief.
It’s a strategy that reinforces the broader theme: Fast fear, faster reversal.
The bottom line is simple: Trade what you see.
This market rewards immediacy over patience and reaction over prediction. When logic and price conflict, price keeps winning.
I’ll see you in the markets.
Chris Pulver
Chris Pulver TradingÂ
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