AI Smooth Sailing Until The Tide Turns / Macro-To-Micro Options Power Hour / Sep 3, 2025
Macro-To-Micro Options Power Hour full episode from Sep 3, 2025
In this episode of Macro-To-Micro Options Power Hour from Sep 3, 2025, Samantha LaDuc and Hans Albrecht discuss how September’s macro catalysts (non-farm payrolls, potential large BLS job revisions, and the Sept. 17 FOMC decision) could swing the market, including the odds of a 25–50 bps Fed rate cut and what it would mean for equities, bonds, and the dollar.
They frame the current tape as “chop” and mostly reversion-to-the-mean: NVDA/MSFT/QQQ pullbacks, an Apple/Google pop on antitrust news, growth-vs-value rotation, sticky long-end yields, and a yield-curve steepener under fiscal dominance, plus risks from a possible Oct. 1 government shutdown and a Q3–Q4 earnings slowdown.
They highlight thematic trades (gold/silver and miners leadership, selective AI beneficiaries (data/storage names), resilient megacaps, cautious software, skeptical small caps (IWM), improving banks, and China ADRs) while watching corporate issuance/buybacks to power any year-end rally.
Finally, they outline practical options tactics (collars, put-ratio spreads, term-structure awareness, gamma levels) to navigate volatility and position for inflection points around jobs data and the Fed—an SEO-friendly guide to “Fed rate cuts, yield-curve steepening, AI stocks, gold breakout, China tech, and options strategy” in one fast hour.
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