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Here's what I do before most traders have their coffee

Here's what I do before most traders have their coffee

By the time the bell rings, I already know

May 01, 2026

Good morning, folks.

Jeff Williams here.

Let me tell you what a typical morning looks like for most retail traders.

The alarm goes off.

They check their phone.

They see a headline - something about earnings, or oil, or a Fed comment - and they try to figure out what it means before the market opens.

They look at futures. They check a few tickers. By 9:30, they've absorbed a lot of noise and formed a vague opinion.

Then the bell rings and the market does something they didn't expect, and they're reacting instead of executing.

I know that pattern because I lived it early in my career.

What changed wasn't the amount of information I was reading. What changed was the order I read it in - and what I was actually looking for.

The crude oil price tells me something about market sentiment that the headlines don't.
The VIX tells me whether the fear being reported is actually showing up in how institutions are positioning.
The premarket action in the European markets tells me whether the overnight move has legs or whether it's likely to fade at the open.

By 8:44 AM, I have a thesis. By 8:45, it's in your inbox.

That process - where it comes from, how it gets pressure-tested, and how it turns into a single executable trade idea - is exactly what I walked through in Wednesday's live session.

The replay is still available:

👉 Watch The Opening Bell Blueprint →

It's about an hour.

The part that tends to land hardest for people is the pressure test segment - specifically why I use oil and the VIX before I look at the SPY chart, and how that sequence has helped the signals avoid a lot of the traps that chop up traders who skip that step.

April closed with a near-80% success rate using this process. March had just two losing alerts the entire month.

Note: Max potential of trade alerts. Trading is hard, results not guaranteed and should not be expected to be replicated typically.

If you want to put this in your corner every morning - the daily email at 8:45, the live room at 9:00, the app alert at 9:25 - the special rate from Wednesday's event is still active:

👉 Join Market Navigator here at a special discount.

The replay is the starting point. Go watch it.

Cheers,

Jeff Williams

P.S. The SPY's lowest daily range in all of 2026 was $2.96. The highest was considerably more. A 10-to-15% base hit on a standard options contract only needs about 70 cents of movement. That math plays out in our favor on 100% of trading days - but only if you're on the right side of the move before the bell rings.

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