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The bond market called the Fed's bluff last night — and the market paid for it. Tom Sosnoff, Tony Battista, and Scott Sheridan break down the post-FOMC wreckage: Meta down $55, Microsoft up $60, and a S&P reversal that turned a "how does daddy do it" moment into a bag-holding disaster. They get into zero-DTE iron condor mechanics, why 2X and 3X leveraged ETFs eat your money overnight, how IVR is the only stock-picking tool worth using in a high-vol environment, and whether Schwab's "temperamental era" thesis is the real trading shift — or just a Schwab thing to say.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro — post-FOMC market recap

5:32 Fed Chair Warsh: play ball, not the referee

11:40 Bond market calling the Fed's bluff

18:26 Leveraged ETFs (2X/3X) — how decay actually works

21:15 How to find trending stocks? (honest answer)

23:02 Trading earnings: mindset and strategy

37:27 Best trades of the week reviewed

44:20 Switch to Scott Sheridan / market update

50:19 The "temperamental era" thesis — Schwab vs. the market

58:12 Is high volatility here to stay?

1:01:24 Zero-DTE iron condors — the high-probability approach

1:01:27 Stocks vs. bonds: institutional equity allocations

1:13:41 Best time of day to open and close trades

1:16:34 Does selling premium on Fridays have an edge?

1:24:25 Apple call spread at earnings — hold or roll?

The Fed held rates again and the market threw a fit — then rallied the next morning while Meta cratered 10% on earnings and Microsoft surged 4%. This episode sits inside a streak of 26 straight trading days with 1%-plus moves in the Nasdaq, which Schwab is calling the start of a "temperamental era" replacing decades of the "great moderation." Whether that framing holds or not, the practical reality for active traders is that trillion-dollar companies are now swinging $50 to $60 a day — and the old playbook of holding positions through Fed days and earnings without a plan is getting people hurt. The tools and mechanics discussed here — IVR, rolling at 21 DTE, early zero-DTE management, and sizing down in volatile conditions — are the same fundamentals that held up across both the moderation era and whatever comes next.

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One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 8 : 30-10am CT. Hosts Tom Sosnoff, Scott Sheridan and Tony Battista bring decades of trading, entrepreneurial and fintech experience to optimizing our professional and portfolio worth.

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Tom Sosnoff, Scott Sheridan, and Tony Battista break down whether space stocks are a real investable sector or just government-contract noise, what the shape of the VIX futures curve tells you heading into a massive earnings week, and why levered ETFs have a hidden drag that most retail traders completely miss. Tom walks through his trades of the week including Rocket Lab and a Robinhood earnings play, callers ask about managing short strangles through a prolonged down market, and the crew debates whether tight corporate credit spreads are actually a bullish signal for equities — or just a false sense of calm.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro and market open check

6:38 Is space a real investable sector?

10:26 Space vs. quantum: where's the better bet?

15:07 Dog Pound: how to manage a tested strangle

17:04 Sector poll results: what the crowd is most bullish on

27:12 Buffer ETFs explained: are they worth it?

33:19 Caller Ryan: advice for newer traders in volatile markets

37:17 Tom's trades of the week: Rocket Lab and Robinhood

48:15 VIX cash vs. futures curve: what it means right now

53:36 Why trading VIX calendars is a bad idea

1:04:08 Credit spreads near multi-year lows: bull signal or warning?

1:09:42 Housing market reality check

1:22:44 Levered ETFs: the pros, the cons, and the decay problem

1:28:29 Dog Pound: thinkorswim API vs. tastytrade for automated trading

With NASDAQ futures swinging nearly 800 points from overnight highs to intraday lows, earnings season for mega-caps like Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon is compressing volatility risk into the near term — exactly what a flat VIX curve signals. Traders who've only known the post-2009 buy-the-dip regime now face a market where rallies are getting capped and rotation out of semis into software is happening on a near-daily basis. Understanding the structural limitations of levered ETFs and the nuances of the VIX term structure isn't optional anymore — it's the difference between surviving a volatile tape and getting wiped out by it. Tom's warning that retail piling into VIX products is a massive red flag, and his personal story of a client who ignored that advice and got obliterated, says everything you need to know about why product literacy matters right now.

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Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan get into it on whether prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are genuinely useful tools for active investors — or just well-dressed crowd bias with a bad fee structure and dead money tied up for years. Then the conversation shifts to something that actually matters right now: the historic daily money flows ripping in and out of semiconductor stocks (think $1.9 billion in option premium per day on one platform alone), why Micron, AMD, and Intel can beat earnings and still get crushed, and what that tells you about how the market actually works. They also walk through how implied volatility behaves in the 24 hours before earnings, whether "I'd be happy to own this stock" is sound put-selling logic (spoiler: Tom calls it out), and the real pros and cons of pre-market and after-hours trading after Tom's Intel after-hours play didn't go the way he planned.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro — market winds have shifted

2:13 Semiconductor selloff: Micron, AMD, Nvidia

5:29 Crypto outlook: Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum

8:32 Question of the day: Are prediction markets useful?

14:12 Dog pound Q&A: Managing Vega exposure

17:27 What actually happens to IV before earnings

21:16 Dog pound: Is "I'd own this stock" good put logic?

24:44 Dog pound: How do option trades move stock price

29:55 Apple earnings preview and Nostradogus

34:51 Scott's best trades of the week

52:41 AI cost efficiency and the chip vs. software rotation

1:07:33 Semiconductor money flows vs. prediction markets

1:13:42 Volatility as opportunity — upcoming video

1:16:33 After-hours trading: advantages and disadvantages

Prediction markets are pulling in mainstream financial media attention, but Tom Sosnoff makes the case that one day of semiconductor option flow on a single brokerage platform dwarfs two years' worth of notional trading across every prediction market combined. That context matters right now: with chip stocks like Micron shedding 20% in days despite beating earnings, and AI companies like Google posting negative quarterly free cash flow after $45 billion in capex, understanding what actually drives price — money flow, volatility, and positioning — is more valuable than any crowd-sourced probability reading. This episode lands on a market that feels like it has shifted from "buy every dip" to "sell every rip," with major earnings from Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon all hitting within days.

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Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista kick off the week breaking down whether space is a real investable sector or still too government-dependent, with SpaceX's ongoing slide as Exhibit A. Tom shares four specific trades of the week — Rocket Lab puts, an earnings strangle in Hood, an unbalanced jade lizard in Intel, and a put ratio spread in Uber. Scott Sheridan then joins to get into the shape of the VIX curve heading into a massive earnings week, why the Shiller CAPE ratio at its second-highest reading ever should at least give bulls pause, and a full breakdown of the real risks hiding inside leveraged ETFs that most retail traders never read the fine print on.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

3:55 Market open: NASDAQ, crude oil, bonds recap

6:38 Is space a genuine investable sector?

11:51 SpaceX trading strategy — puts vs calls

15:07 Strangle management: rolling the untested side

18:03 Sector poll results: space, quantum, Bitcoin

19:17 Naked put laddering in micro S&Ps

33:19 Caller Ryan: trading through violent down moves

37:17 Tom's trades of the week — Rocket Lab, Hood, Intel, Uber

44:58 Scott Sheridan joins

48:15 What the VIX curve shape is telling traders

52:36 Understanding VIX futures: don't trade calendars

1:04:08 Credit spreads near multi-year lows — bull case or red flag?

1:13:02 Shiller CAPE at second-highest ever — what it means

1:22:44 The real risks of leveraged ETFs

1:28:32 thinkorswim API and automated trading question

The market's two-tape problem is getting louder in 2026 — mega-cap software grinding higher while chips get hammered, volatility stubbornly bid even on up days, and the VIX curve flattening ahead of Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon earnings. At the same time, the Shiller CAPE ratio is sitting near historically extreme levels seen only before the dot-com crash and 2008, a signal that doesn't predict timing but does frame the longer-term risk landscape every trader is operating inside. Add in SpaceX losing half its value from its peak, retail piling into leveraged ETFs without understanding the daily reset decay, and you've got a market environment where position sizing and selectivity aren't just good habits — they're survival skills.

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One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 8 : 30-10am CT. Hosts Tom Sosnoff, Scott Sheridan and Tony Battista bring decades of trading, entrepreneurial and fintech experience to optimizing our professional and portfolio worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

The show is the conversation. The platform is the tool. Together, they're designed to help you stop leaving money on the table and start building the career you actually deserve.

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Markets opened down hard Wednesday — S&Ps off nearly 90 handles, NASDAQ down 400 and change, crude oil ripping from $66 to over $91 in less than two weeks — and Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista were live to walk through all of it. The show opened with the question everyone in fintech is quietly debating: are stablecoins, now major holders of short-term US Treasuries, a stabilizing force or a slow-building systemic risk? Tom's take was measured — the exposure is still tiny and the paper is liquid — but the broader bond market story was harder to dismiss, with 30-year yields pushing toward multi-year highs and rate hike chatter creeping back onto the table. The yen hit a 40-year low, cost of leverage is spiking at the institutional level according to Citadel's Q1 report, and Tony walked through his trades of the week on Google, Tesla, ServiceNow, and SpaceX with live adjustments mid-show as prices moved. Callers chimed in on covered call laddering, defined vs. undefined risk allocation, and the real story behind Bernie Madoff's supposed OEX collar strategy.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro and market open — S&Ps down 87, NASDAQ sliding

2:07 VIX futures up nearly 6% — what the volatility signal means

4:46 Crude oil surging past $91 — and why it's driving the selloff

7:54 Stablecoins and US Treasuries — systemic risk or non-event?

13:46 Dog pound Q&A — skill vs. luck in options trading

19:07 Lossdog platform update — building software in real time

35:41 Tony's trades of the week: Google jade lizard breakdown

39:11 ServiceNow and Tesla trades — live strike adjustments

43:20 SpaceX volatility trade — why selling vol at 110 is a layup

50:34 Leverage costs spiking — what Citadel's Q1 report flagged

54:31 Rate hikes back on the table — Kevin Worsh and the bond market

55:23 Caller Dave (Colorado) — corporate bonds vs. Treasuries in a rising rate world

58:04 Caller Paul (Louisiana) — the market and baccarat as probability games

1:00:24 Covered calls — ladder vs. single expiration strategy

1:02:33 Structural flows vs. fundamentals — what's really driving prices

1:07:43 Japanese yen at a 40-year low — the trade setup and risks

1:16:43 Defined vs. undefined risk — exact capital allocation percentages

1:20:36 Final market recap and callers — S&Ps down 95, NASDAQ off 567

1:21:47 Caller Mike (Pennsylvania) — the Madoff OEX collar myth explained

The market backdrop for this episode was anything but ordinary. Crude oil's move from $66 to over $91 in under two weeks mirrors past episodes where energy prices acted as an early warning system for equity stress — historically, sharp oil spikes tend to compress consumer confidence, widen credit spreads, and push central banks into tighter corners. Stablecoins have crossed $200 billion in market cap in 2026 and are now sitting on enough short-term Treasuries to be noticed by regulators, even if the systemic risk conversation remains more theoretical than real at this size. The yen's 40-year low is partly a war-driven phenomenon — Japan holds significant US debt, and oil is expensive in yen terms — making the currency a strange but interesting proxy trade for anyone watching geopolitical and energy risk. Meanwhile, Citadel flagging leverage costs at 130 basis points over overnight rates is the kind of signal institutional traders track closely; when prime brokerage financing gets meaningfully more expensive, the cost of carrying big levered positions quietly goes up, which can eventually suppress risk appetite even when headlines look benign.

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Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan open with a pointed question: when 54% of total assets under management sits in passive index funds, are fewer dollars actually doing real price discovery — or does more capital just mean more efficiency? From there the show gets into the AI capex arms race, with Alphabet committing $180-190 billion in 2026 capex alone and investors starting to ask when the spending translates into free cash flow. Crown Holdings and Steel Dynamics both beat earnings the same week IBM dropped 25%, raising the question of whether strength outside of tech is becoming too hard to ignore. Tony Battista joins Scott for the second half to break down margin debit balances at all-time highs, the covered call ETF tax treatment question nobody wants to answer, and why rotations don't happen at the top. Callers weigh in on trade management, cutting losses on positions like Oracle, and how to think about reinvesting options profits.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro and market open — cancel crash

3:40 Question of the day: is passive investing killing price discovery?

5:57 Passive funds now 54% of AUM — what that actually means

7:21 More capital = more efficiency? The debate

14:03 AI infrastructure spending and investor patience

22:44 Most underrated skill in trading: quick decision-making

24:49 Nostradogus prediction: cyclosporiasis outbreak

24:56 Caller Sha (Arkansas): cutting losses on short puts, Oracle trade management

44:38 Caller Sean (Dubai): covered call ETF tax treatment and ROC distributions

49:40 Host rotation — Tony Battista joins Scott Sheridan

1:03:49 Earnings outside tech: Crown Holdings and Steel Dynamics beat

1:07:34 Steel demand, data centers, and how everything is connected

1:14:36 AI capex reality check: $190 billion and counting

1:16:11 Will AI spending ever pay off? Investors running out of patience

1:19:54 Alphabet earnings preview: what the market is really watching

1:22:53 Tony's best hall pass story — Michael Jordan on the golf course

1:30:34 Trade management: when to close, roll, or move on

Passive investing has quietly crossed a threshold — more than half of all equity assets under management now sit in index-tracking funds, concentrating capital into a shrinking list of mega-cap names. At the same time, the companies at the top of those indexes are committing staggering sums to AI infrastructure, with Alphabet alone projecting $180-190 billion in 2026 capital expenditures. The question hanging over every earnings call this season is whether that spending will ever produce returns fast enough to justify the bet — or whether investors, who have given tech a hall pass for years, will eventually demand proof. Meanwhile, a quieter story is developing in industrials and materials: companies like Steel Dynamics and Crown Holdings are beating estimates at a moment when IBM dropped 25% on a technology announcement, and margin debit balances across retail brokerage accounts are sitting at all-time highs — a combination that historically signals elevated risk in the broader market, even if the timing of any correction remains unknowable.

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Scott Sheridan and Tony Battista are running the desk solo today while Tom Sosnoff works a media circuit in New York — and the show is packed. The big story: Meta is reportedly in talks to rent Anthropic up to $10 billion in compute, which raises a genuinely uncomfortable question — when the hyperscalers competing on AI are also each other's biggest infrastructure customers, how do you actually define winners and losers? Scott and Tony get into AI infrastructure spending, whether it's become too big to fail, TSMC's raised capex guidance, and what this week's earnings from Alphabet and Tesla — followed by Microsoft and Meta next week — could signal for the entire AI trade. They also walk through Scott's trades of the week across Apple, Moo, Yen, and a new ADR, and answer caller and dog pound questions on short call verticals, small account strategy, covered call management, and algorithmic trading platforms.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro and market open — S&P, NASDAQ, VIX, crypto rundown

4:53 Meta renting compute from Anthropic — partners or competitors?

6:20 TSMC raises 2026 capex to $60-64 billion — too big to fail?

7:11 Short call verticals — delta, width, and portfolio sizing Q&A

17:29 Small account options strategy — expanding your opportunity set

21:24 Covered call management — rolling strikes in a correction

35:57 What it was like to be a market maker on the trading floor

38:38 Scott's trades of the week — Apple diagonal, Moo strangle, Yen put, new ADR strangle

57:13 Pink shoes on the trading floor — dog pound roasts the hosts

58:51 TSMC capex and the AI consolidation risk

1:06:44 Alphabet and Tesla earnings preview — does the AI trade have room to run?

1:11:46 Caller Arthur — algorithmic trading platforms for retail

1:17:50 Alphabet, Tesla, Microsoft, Meta earnings sequence breakdown

1:24:00 What traders can and can't control — IVR, expected move, profit targets

AI infrastructure spending has quietly crossed into a category where the competitive dynamics no longer make obvious sense — hyperscalers are simultaneously each other's rivals and customers, with deals like Meta potentially renting billions in Anthropic compute blurring every traditional line. That's the backdrop for an earnings season where Alphabet, Tesla, Microsoft, and Meta all report within days of each other, and every call is going to be read as a proxy vote on whether the AI trade is priced for reality or priced for a dream. TSMC's latest capex guidance — $60 to $64 billion in 2026 alone, with the CEO signaling more ahead — frames the stakes clearly: this is now industrial policy, not just corporate spending, with Japan backing national Nvidia chip acquisition plans and the entire sector moving in lockstep. The risk Scott and Tony keep returning to is the domino problem — when every company's doing the same thing at the same scale, there's no diversification in the thesis, and a single stumble could reset valuations across the board.

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Scott Sheridan and Tony Battista hold down the fort while Tom Sosnoff heads to Vegas — and they still pack the show. They get into Warren Buffett's claim that the stock market is a church with a casino attached, using the zero DTE options boom as the evidence. Is he right? Does it even matter? From there, Scott and Tony cover the media consolidation wave — Paramount, Warner Brothers, Roku, Comcast — and walk through why traders need to be extremely careful playing options around deals that look done but aren't. A caller returns after going back to E*TRADE about her bond market fill issues, and Scott delivers a real answer on how over-the-counter fixed income desks actually work. The back half gets into something the show rarely addresses: when is it actually time to stop trading a specific ticker? Plus a detailed story about a nearly $4 million loss at thinkorswim that came within a single print of shutting the business down — and what it taught them about discipline forever.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro and market open recap

2:27 Question of the day: Is the market a church or a casino?

4:04 What indicators do you check before the open?

7:48 How has your risk tolerance changed over your career?

18:33 Nostradogus: will June retail sales be revised higher?

19:33 World Cup final debate — soccer vs. American sports

22:53 Caller: E*TRADE bond market fill problem

35:38 Media consolidation — Paramount, Roku, Warner Brothers

44:07 Options around uncertain deals and regulatory risk

55:08 Bonds, the Fed, and the call spread debate

58:22 Futures options vs. stock ETF options — which is better?

1:00:05 Consumer sentiment vs. market all-time highs

1:13:17 Calls from the dog pound — intraday trading approach

1:16:52 Caller: Andrea's E*TRADE resolution

1:24:49 When to stop trading a ticker — putting a symbol in the penalty box

1:26:17 Real stories: symbols that got taken off the screen forever

1:27:33 The thinkorswim Google trade that almost cost $4 million

The zero DTE options boom has become one of the most debated structural shifts in modern markets — with daily notional volume in short-dated contracts now rivaling traditional options flow, it's forced the industry to ask whether that activity represents real price discovery or something closer to speculative gambling at scale. Media consolidation is accelerating at the same time, with Paramount-Warner Brothers and the ripple effects hitting Charter and Comcast, all while state-level regulatory challenges remind traders that DOJ clearance is not the finish line. On the consumer side, the divergence between how people feel (historically low University of Michigan sentiment readings) and what they actually do (credit cards maxed, flights full, restaurants packed) remains one of the more fascinating disconnects in the current economic cycle — and Scott and Tony take genuinely different sides on whether that gap ends in a soft landing or a cliff.

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Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista open the show in the thick of a brutal chip stock selloff — Micron down nearly $40 at the open, Nvidia off, AMD getting hit — while the broader S&P barely flinches. Tom walks through his live Micron clawback trade and his ongoing short position, then Tony runs his full "Walk Down Y'all Street" segment with specific setups in Micron, IBM, SpaceX, and Netflix ahead of earnings. Scott Sheridan joins for the second half to take on the "Teflon market" question head-on: what does it mean when this market absorbs IBM shocks, semiconductor selloffs, and oil spikes without blinking? They also break down the newly launched Texas Stock Exchange — who backed it, how it actually changes order routing for retail traders, and why more competition almost always means better fills. Callers bring real questions on tastytrade's IVR scan process, option selling philosophy (high-probability vs. outlier risk), and whether profit-taking should ever be mechanical.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro and market open — chip stocks getting hit

4:07 Uber acquires Delivery Hero for $14.8B (yesterday's Nostradamus call pays off)

6:18 Tom and Tony Battista intro — live market levels

17:43 Regret and missed opportunities: the trade you didn't make

21:40 The Uber origin story — Tom passes on Travis Kalanick's pitch

26:33 Most useless financial advice you hear repeated

29:51 Tony's trades: Micron put ratio spread walkthrough

36:04 IBM call diagonal — catching a falling knife with defined risk

38:33 Netflix earnings setups — short-dated and longer-dated diagonals

41:51 Tony's trade rankings: what the Dog Pound voted on

43:57 Scott Sheridan joins — second-half market recap

47:55 Teflon market debate: can this rally really shrug off everything?

51:34 Passive index fund flows and the "buy the dip" era

57:56 Collar strategy: does it actually protect you?

1:02:24 Texas Stock Exchange goes live — what it means for traders

1:20:46 Teaching your kid to trade: the 10-cent put story

1:21:31 Caller from Israel: option selling vs. outlier risk philosophy

1:25:38 Mechanical vs. discretionary profit-taking

1:26:54 Single stock futures — CME's latest attempt

Markets shrugging off bad earnings and semiconductor chaos is now the baseline in 2026, not the exception. S&P passive index fund inflows running $1-2 billion a day have created a structural bid that makes individual bad news nearly irrelevant — until it isn't. The Texas Stock Exchange entering the fray is part of a broader fragmentation story: more exchanges, more competition, tighter spreads, and eventually lower data costs for the firms that pass savings on to retail traders. On the options side, the perennial debate between high-probability premium selling and tail-risk protection strategies is as live as ever, especially as the market's implied complacency sits near all-time-low VIX territory while individual chip names lose 15-20% in a session.

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Tony Battista is back from Italy and the market didn't miss a beat — S&P near all-time highs, volatility contracted, and earnings season is heating up. Tom and Tony Battista get into why beating lowered expectations isn't the same as a healthy Main Street, break down Amazon's $25 billion bond deal as a potential two-to-four red flag situation for AI infrastructure spending, and go deep on whether the ETF wrapper has become more important than what's actually inside it. Trades of the week include a Netflix put ladder into tomorrow's earnings, an IBM selling-puts setup post-meltdown, and a Coreweave position. Scott Sheridan joins later for a sharp breakdown of portfolio Greeks — when to watch the overall picture versus managing your individual problem children.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro — Tony's back, market update

3:55 Earnings season: the risk nobody's talking about

4:49 Is Main Street actually healthy or just good at lowering the bar?

7:34 Why low volatility makes earnings the most dangerous time

10:31 Dog Pound Q&A: options questions answered

13:11 Micron, Nvidia, and the daily NASDAQ rotation

18:02 Paper trading vs live fills: what slippage to expect

21:27 Nostradogus: Uber and Delivery Hero merger question

35:53 Trades of the week: Netflix put ladder before earnings

38:32 IBM trade: selling puts after a 75-point drop

40:07 Coreweave trade setup

54:10 Amazon's $25B bond deal — confidence or warning sign?

1:05:48 Caller Mike from Pennsylvania on Amazon's free cash flow

1:09:19 Have ETFs become just a wrapper to sell anything?

1:14:10 4,873 ETFs vs 4,400 stocks — the math that should scare you

1:26:00 Portfolio Greeks: overall view vs individual positions

Amazon just borrowed $25 billion in bonds across tranches running from 4.6% to 6.2%, even as its trailing free cash flow dropped from $25 billion to roughly $1.2 billion — a signal that AI infrastructure spending is devouring capital faster than it can be replaced. The ETF market has crossed a threshold most people haven't noticed: there are now more ETFs than individual stocks listed in the US, with $13–15 trillion in assets and products ranging from broad index funds to single-stock covered call strategies to a proposed gambling ETF managed by a "professional gambler." Meanwhile, earnings season is arriving with the VIX near multi-year lows — historically the setup where surprising moves do the most damage, because there's no extra premium cushion. These are the structural questions Tom, Tony, and Scott are putting under the microscope right now, and they're the same ones showing up in how the smartest options traders are positioning heading into Netflix, IBM, and the rest of Q2.

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One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 8 : 30-10am CT. Hosts Tom Sosnoff, Scott Sheridan and Tony Battista bring decades of trading, entrepreneurial and fintech experience to optimizing our professional and portfolio worth.

Lossdog is the platform they're building to fix it. It's AI-powered software that doesn't just guess what you should earn—it calculates your real market value and shows you exactly how to increase it. No more vague salary ranges. No more wondering if you're being underpaid. Just clarity, backed by data.

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