Heavy Triple Critical Day: Black Friday + The New Federal Reserve Chair Officially Takes Office + Large-Scale Options Settlement Today

Three Major Events Converge, Making Market Turns Highly Likely, Risks and Volatility Significantly Increase:
1. Black Friday
Today is International Black Friday, not only a shopping frenzy but also a day of major capital shifts in the financial markets.
Institutional funds will rebalance and rotate positions in European and American stocks, commodities, and crypto markets, while retail trading sentiment also erupts.
Markets are prone to sharp rises and falls, with frequent whipsaws, and the battle between bulls and bears will be especially fierce.
2. The New Federal Reserve Chair Officially Takes Office
Today marks the formal start of the new Fed Chair’s tenure, prompting the market to reassess future monetary policy directions.
Everyone will speculate in advance: whether there will be rate hikes or cuts, the stance on inflation, and whether monetary policy will tighten or loosen.
The US dollar and US Treasury yields will fluctuate accordingly, directly impacting gold, US stocks, and crypto markets, with risk aversion and speculative sentiment switching rapidly.
3. Monthly Large-Scale Options Settlement
Today, both US stocks and crypto markets face their monthly options expiration and settlement.
Massive call and put options contracts are settled simultaneously, with institutions deliberately manipulating prices to profit.
They sweep retail stop-loss orders back and forth, staging double-sided traps, causing key support and resistance levels to break instantly and then quickly recover.
The convergence of these three sensitive timing points creates a super volatile window, with market swings reaching extreme levels.
Short-term market movements will be much more intense than usual, with increased disagreement between bulls and bears, and major players intensifying their shakeout and profit-taking efforts.