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“One question drives the Dark Ticker signal: Did the market drop 1% or more? When the answer is yes, the data dictates what comes next.”

Bryan Bottarelli, Co-Founder, Monument Traders Alliance 

Dear Reader,

Bonds are breaking and the Dark Ticker just paid out.

The 10-year Treasury climbed to its highest level in a year, and last week’s bond selloff was the worst since the April 2025 tariff panic.

War-elevated energy prices are keeping inflation sticky, and Moody’s US credit downgrade piled on when bond markets were already stretched thin.

I’ve been watching this setup build for weeks.

The market has run hard off the April 2025 lows, and a bond market selling off while equities sit near recent highs is exactly what exhaustion looks like before a pullback.

I think we’ve reached a near-term top.

However, that didn’t stop me from buying the Russell 2000 ETF (IWM). And I’ll explain why shortly.

IWM closed at $273.07, down 1% on the day, and the Dark Ticker signal fired at 4:00 PM.

The alert went out: Buy the IWM May 22nd 272 Calls in the next 15 minutes.

This morning, IWM pushed above $278.

The exit alert followed: Sell at $3.30 or above.

The “or above” part is crucial… because some members rang the register for up to 120% on another overnight Dark Ticker winner.

The Math That Makes This Work

One question drives the Dark Ticker signal: did the market drop 1% or more? When the answer is yes, the data dictates what comes next.

When the market drops 1% or more in a session, it rebounds the following day 88% of the time. For drops of 2% or more, that rebound rate climbs to 92%.

Over the past 30 years, every drop of 5% or more has been followed by a recovery the next trading day.

Institutions use sharp down days to rebalance and add to positions at better prices.

Their buying creates the upward pressure that follows, and zero-day options on IWM give us the leverage to capture that window with a fraction of the capital a stock position requires.

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The Track Record

The Dark Ticker has produced 95 trades since inception with a 70.53% win rate. In 2026, that win rate has climbed to 78.95% across 19 trades with an average return of 27.07% per trade.

Some members made 52%, even 120%, in less than 24 hours this morning:

To put that into perspective, the average Dark Ticker Trade has outperformed the S&P 500 three-fold YTD.

So far in May, we’re five for five in winning trades like this. And trust me, we’re just getting started.

A run like this isn’t luck… it’s strategy.

YOUR ACTION PLAN

The conditions creating Dark Ticker setups aren’t going away anytime soon.

Bond yields are elevated, inflation is sticky, and a market showing exhaustion near recent highs is exactly the kind of environment that produces more 1% down days.

The signal is a mechanical one.

When the trigger fires, I send the entry price, the execution window, and the exit target. The position is closed within 24 hours.

So, while I think investors should be concerned about the market overall, traders should be opportunistic, especially on setups like the Dark Ticker.

If you want to be positioned for the next trade, you need to keep an eye out for something BIG coming next week…

I’ll show you exactly how to take advantage of my overnight trades.

Stay tuned.Want more content like this?

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