“Individual mega-caps don’t just participate in market moves – they amplify them by 3x to 5x.”
Bryan Bottarelli, Head Trade Tactician, Monument Traders Alliance
Publisher’s Note: Markets are whipsawing. Headlines scream chaos. But smart money is quietly positioning in names the crowd ignores.
While everyone fixates on macro noise, technical setups are flashing opportunity for traders paying attention. Jon Najarian and our own Nate Bear spotted six charts showing unusual bullish divergence – the kind of setups that create outsized moves when sentiment shifts.
The market chaos is real. The opportunities hiding in it are too.
January 28, 2 p.m. ET – Save Your Seat Here
– Stephen Prior, Publisher
Dear Reader,
Something massive happened this morning that I’ve been waiting months for.
The SEC approved Nasdaq ISE’s rule change on January 16, 2026, and today, trading officially began on Monday and Wednesday short-term options for nine mega-cap stocks.
This is exactly the expansion I’ve been waiting for since we started crushing it with our Dark Ticker.
What Just Went Live
Here are the nine qualifying securities now trading with Monday/Wednesday expirations:
- TSLA (Tesla)
- NVDA (NVIDIA)
- AAPL (Apple)
- IBIT (iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF)
- AMZN (Amazon)
- META (Meta)
- AVGO (Broadcom)
- GOOGL (Alphabet)
- MSFT (Microsoft)
Each one has a market cap over $700 billion and monthly options volume exceeding 10 million contracts.
These aren’t experimental picks – they’re the most liquid names in the market.
Why This Expansion Was Inevitable
0DTE options on the SPX now represent 59% of total SPX options volume. That’s not a typo – nearly 60% of all SPX options trading is same-day expiration. We’re talking 2.3 million contracts daily.
This volume has grown fivefold over just three years.
Much of that activity (50% to 60%) comes from retail traders who figured out what institutions have known…
When you can predict direction for just one day, you can make massive money fast.
Nasdaq just looked at those numbers and said, “Let’s bring this to individual mega-caps.”
What This Changes
Our Dark Ticker strategy was built on 0DTE index options – same-day expirations on SPY, QQQ, IWM. We’ve used these to capture overnight rebounds when the market drops 1% or more, delivering a 69.2% win rate across 78 trades.
We’re 2 for 2 this month with a 50.83% average gain – that’s overnight! – on these trades.
But here’s what gets me excited…
Individual mega-caps don’t just participate in market moves – they amplify them by 3-5x.
When the market drops 1%, TSLA might drop 4%.
When the market rebounds, TSLA often leads that charge with even bigger percentage moves.
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The Precision Tools in Our Toolbox
Dirt-Cheap Options on Expensive Stocks: TSLA trades around $440 per share. Buying 100 shares would require $44,000 in capital.
But a Monday-expiring call option might cost $200-$500, giving you leverage on the exact same move with a fraction of the capital.
Surgical Catalyst Timing: When Apple schedules its quarterly AI software updates (since Apple Intelligence launched), the stock typically moves 2% to 4% based on whether the features exceed or underwhelm expectations.
Previously, you’d use weekly options and deal with extra time decay even when you knew the scheduled AI update was Tuesday morning.
Now? If Apple announces its next Intelligence update for Monday after close, you can buy Wednesday-expiring options and target just the announcement reaction – no wasted premium on time you don’t need.
This gives you precision timing on scheduled regulatory hearings for TSLA, planned AI partnership announcements for NVDA, or any other known catalyst dates. You’re not paying for theta you’ll never use.
Enhanced Precision on Market Volatility: When our Dark Ticker signal triggers, we can now target individual names most likely to lead the rebound. Instead of playing SPY’s 1.5% bounce, we might capture AMZN’s 4% snapback on the same catalyst.
The Game-Changing Potential
When the market drops 1% and triggers our Dark Ticker signal, we might see TSLA down 7%, META down 4%, and NVDA down 3%. Previously, we could only play the broad market rebound.
Now we can target whichever individual name shows the most compelling setup for the snap-back move.
A 2% move in AAPL might generate potentially explosive 80% to 150% returns in same-day options, compared to 30% to 50% in index options.
These high-reward setups come with serious theta risks, but that’s exactly why the volume on mega-caps makes them tradeable from day one.
Strategy Validation
Our 78 Dark Ticker trades with a 69.2% win rate have proved our core insight works… Markets overreact to the downside and institutions step in to rebalance, creating predictable rebounds.
As I said above, we’re perfect so far in 2026 (2 for 2) with 50.8% average returns.
Now we get to test whether this phenomenon is even more pronounced in individual mega-caps that move with much more violence.
YOUR ACTION PLAN
The same retail energy that drove 0DTE SPX volume to 2.3 million daily contracts just got unleashed on TSLA, NVDA, AAPL, META, AMZN, MSFT, GOOGL, AVGO, and IBIT.
Our methodology proved itself with index options. Now we have precision weapons that create much bigger profit opportunities.
The revolution that transformed index options trading went live for mega-caps this morning. Time to see what these new tools can do.
Want even more firepower? Join us Wednesday, January 28, at 2 p.m. ETas trading legend Jon Najarian and self-made millionaire Nate Bear break down six under-the-radar setups that could turn volatility into your next profitable trade.
Add this free event to your calendar right here.
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