Volatility, Opportunity, and Trump:
The Trader’s Survival Guide

How to Stay in Control When Markets Go Wild

See this?

📉 4th Feb, 5 AM GMT: Trump randomly announces the US would take over Gaza.
​→ Nasdaq drops $190 in minutes.
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​And this?

📈 Trump speaks to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and agrees to suspend tariffs.

→ A $335 move out of nowhere… just a casual 1.6% spike.
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​There are many more, but you get the point.

TRUMP & THE NEW MARKET REGIME

Like it or not, this is the environment we’re trading in.

It brings risk. It brings opportunity. How you handle it makes all the difference.

🚨 The risk?

  • Get caught on the wrong side of one of these moves, and it could get ugly… fast.
  • Scalpers relying on manual exits? You must have the discipline to cut immediately. This isn’t the time to hesitate.
  • Consider emergency hard stops on every trade as an added safety net.

💡 The opportunity?

  • Momentum traders: Is there a play to capture the surprise order flow?
  • Mean reversion traders: Study the spike structures, can you build a system to fade these moves?

Even if you don’t plan to trade this kind of stuff at the very least audit how your risk management rules may need to change…

🔹 How do you protect yourself from headline-driven whipsaws?
🔹 Do your stops account for increased volatility?
🔹 Are you adjusting size accordingly?

Leaving things up to chance is just asking for trouble…

I actually recorded a podcast episode covering this exact topic in more depth:

🎧 Volatility, Opportunity, and Trump: The Trader’s Survival Guide

⇒ Click here to listen

Might spark a few ideas to keep you out of trouble… or help you add a new strategy to your playbook.