results next week year-to-date, the stock has unsuccessfully tried to dig itself out of a hole mike khouw thinks that's about to change. it's time to risk less to make more "options action" starts now. >>> before we get to tonight's trades, let's take stock of the market's move this month we've seen a substantial turn especially in the nasdaq mike, your thoughts on this? >> i think it was a positive week because we had some pretty low expectations in several names going into the earnings. alphabet, what we usually refer to as google was a good familexample of this. the other names were pretty good amazon, it's interesting i don't think from an operating standpoint it was so exciting. but i think the price action is very positive when we take a look at it and of course now it looks hike there's some progress going on in washington. whether or not you happen to like what's going on with the schumer-manchin deal or not, the fact that there is some movement does create some bit of a tailwind, i think, for equities. so you put all those things together, and generally, it's a positive although

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lee, live from the nasdaq market site this is "options action" on the desk tonight carter worth, mike khouw and tony zhang the technicals may be pointing to some currency concern the chart master, carter worth has the charts >> let's get right to it everybody on one side, and often when that's the case it's right to take the road less traveled two lines, two colors. very straightforward u.s. dollar, euro. and they are largely the inverse of one another but it's about this spread, how wide it is so this is a two-year chart. let's go and look at a little bit longer duration. this is a five-year. it's the same circumstance it's just everyone's thinking dollar can't do anything but go up inju euro can't do anything but go down let's look at another chart. i think you do the opposite. so another way to look at the circumstance this is the actual u.s. dollar index. no lines or no drawings, let's put some loinines or drawings i. there's a well-defined channel we've blown out of the top of the channel. we've track sod weed so well wih channel until we break out selloff in the dollar. and so the thi