LIVE TODAY: They just changed the rules at the worst possible time

I’m going live this morning at 9:15 am ET, and there’s a lot I want to get off my chest. 

Someone just raised the margin requirements across the board.

I almost never talk about margin requirements. This time I have to. A broad-based margin hike landed while the market sits at or near all-time highs, and in all my years I have never seen that combination. It is a warning shot across the bow, and it tells you the people who set the rules think things are getting overheated.

If you opened your account lately, saw a pile of mega-cap names like Google, and thought the margin numbers looked all wrong, this is why.

That signal does not mean you sit on your hands, though. It means you trade the moment with risk that is clearly defined, instead of leaving yourself exposed the way most traders do.

That is exactly what I am doing live this morning. I will explain what the margin shift is telling us, then put on a defined-risk trade built for this kind of overheated tape, one step at a time.

Come see how I am positioning while everyone else is staring at the same flat headline number.

👉 join me for today's live session

To your success,
Don Kaufman