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Tom, Scott, and Sol kick off Wednesday with NVIDIA earnings on everyone's mind — and Tom already has a strangle on. Before the close, they walk through the Lossdog Nation trades of the week (Snowflake, Marvell, Robinhood, and silver), break down why undefined risk trades like strangles often beat iron condors on probability and credit, and explain what VIX backwardation actually signals in a conflict-driven market. On the career side, the show gets into a real one: what do you do when you genuinely don't know what you want to do with your life? Sol walks through a practical self-audit framework — shifting from big-picture career anxiety to short-term project thinking — and Tom and Scott share why changing paths multiple times isn't failure, it's just how careers actually work. Callers weigh in on Solana, the best time of day to trade, and more.
#lossdog #optionstrading #careerdevelopment #nvidia #stockmarket #vix
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro and Memorial Day weekend banter
3:54 Market check — S&P, Nasdaq, NVIDIA pre-earnings
7:10 NVIDIA earnings strangle trade breakdown
11:18 CRRS options spread
12:30 Show's topics
13:21 Caller: Mitch question about solana
15:50 Question of the day: is there a best time to trade?
19:02 Lossdog Nation trades of the week
19:20 Trade idea: Snowflake earnings strangle
20:49 Trade idea: Marvell iron condor
22:21 Trade idea: Robinhood puts
23:01 Trade idea: silver strangle
24:17 Caller: Best time of day to trade
26:01 DP: what's your trade for NVDA earnings
27:32 Career segment — I don't know what I want to do
28:02 Career self-audit: list your strengths and constraints
29:38 Shift from career thinking to project mentality
31:40 You can pivot and don't have to figure it out all at once
36:10 Market Look
38:11 Undefined risk vs. defined risk trades explained
41:26 NVIDIA strangle as a real-time example
46:18 Sol's question: VIX cash vs. VIX futures explained
48:36 VIX backwardation and what it signals right now
50:04 Market Talk: bonds, chips, and what to watch into close
Career confusion isn't a personal failing — it's practically a structural feature of the modern job market. With AI reshuffling entire industries, white-collar layoffs running hot through 2025 and into 2026, and the traditional "pick a lane and stay in it" model quietly falling apart, more people than ever are asking the same question Sol frames on today's show: what do I actually want to do? Research consistently shows that most Americans change careers — not just jobs — multiple times across their working lives, and the workers who treat skills development as an ongoing project rather than a fixed destination tend to adapt faster and earn more over time. On the trading side, the strangle-versus-iron-condor question is one that trips up options traders at every level: defined risk feels safer, but the math on probability of profit and credit collected often tells a different story — especially in high-volatility environments like the one the market is sitting in right now, with the VIX elevated and in backwardation heading into a major earnings catalyst.
ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG
One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.
Lossdog is the platform they'...
Tom, Scott, and Sol kick off Wednesday with NVIDIA earnings on everyone's mind — and Tom already has a strangle on. Before the close, they walk through the Lossdog Nation trades of the week (Snowflake, Marvell, Robinhood, and silver), break down why undefined risk trades like strangles often beat iron condors on probability and credit, and explain what VIX backwardation actually signals in a conflict-driven market. On the career side, the show gets into a real one: what do you do when you genuinely don't know what you want to do with your life? Sol walks through a practical self-audit framework — shifting from big-picture career anxiety to short-term project thinking — and Tom and Scott share why changing paths multiple times isn't failure, it's just how careers actually work. Callers weigh in on Solana, the best time of day to trade, and more.
#lossdog #optionstrading #careerdevelopment #nvidia #stockmarket #vix
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro and Memorial Day weekend banter
3:54 Market check — S&P, Nasdaq, NVIDIA pre-earnings
7:10 NVIDIA earnings strangle trade breakdown
11:18 CRRS options spread
12:30 Show's topics
13:21 Caller: Mitch question about solana
15:50 Question of the day: is there a best time to trade?
19:02 Lossdog Nation trades of the week
19:20 Trade idea: Snowflake earnings strangle
20:49 Trade idea: Marvell iron condor
22:21 Trade idea: Robinhood puts
23:01 Trade idea: silver strangle
24:17 Caller: Best time of day to trade
26:01 DP: what's your trade for NVDA earnings
27:32 Career segment — I don't know what I want to do
28:02 Career self-audit: list your strengths and constraints
29:38 Shift from career thinking to project mentality
31:40 You can pivot and don't have to figure it out all at once
36:10 Market Look
38:11 Undefined risk vs. defined risk trades explained
41:26 NVIDIA strangle as a real-time example
46:18 Sol's question: VIX cash vs. VIX futures explained
48:36 VIX backwardation and what it signals right now
50:04 Market Talk: bonds, chips, and what to watch into close
Career confusion isn't a personal failing — it's practically a structural feature of the modern job market. With AI reshuffling entire industries, white-collar layoffs running hot through 2025 and into 2026, and the traditional "pick a lane and stay in it" model quietly falling apart, more people than ever are asking the same question Sol frames on today's show: what do I actually want to do? Research consistently shows that most Americans change careers — not just jobs — multiple times across their working lives, and the workers who treat skills development as an ongoing project rather than a fixed destination tend to adapt faster and earn more over time. On the trading side, the strangle-versus-iron-condor question is one that trips up options traders at every level: defined risk feels safer, but the math on probability of profit and credit collected often tells a different story — especially in high-volatility environments like the one the market is sitting in right now, with the VIX elevated and in backwardation heading into a major earnings catalyst.
ABOUT ONE LUCKY DOG LIVE! / LOSSDOG
One Lucky Dog LIVE! is your daily wake-up call for career and financial clarity—streaming live Monday through Thursday, 10-11am ET. Hosts Tom Sosnoff and Scott Sheridan (the founders behind thinkorswim and tastytrade) along with co-host Sol bring decades of experience democratizing finance, now turning their attention to something just as broken: how we understand our professional worth.
Lossdog is the platform they'...
