Same-Day 0DTE. Don Kaufman Doesn’t Need Five Days. He Needs Three Mornings — And So Do You.

Apple. Tesla. Nvidia. Amazon. Meta. Microsoft. Alphabet. All now expire same-day on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Don Kaufman trades them live. 9:30 AM. You’re in the room.

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That’s not a boast. It’s a structural observation.

For years, traders were taught that more screen time meant more edge. More charts. More days. More hours glued to movement that never resolves into anything worth trading.

Don Kaufman watched that for two decades from the inside — as the 13th employee at thinkorswim, as Head of Trading Education at TD Ameritrade, with over 7 million traders under his watch.

And what he saw was this: most traders don’t lose because they lack information. They lose because they act on too much of the wrong kind — at the wrong time, on the wrong days, in windows that were never going to produce anything.

The market doesn’t reward effort. It rewards selectivity. Most traders have those two things completely backwards.

DON-DTE is built around that single idea. Not more trading. Better trading. In the exact windows — Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 9:30 AM — where same-day pressure can actually build into something real.

Monday. Wednesday. Friday.

Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet all now carry same-day options expiration on each of those days. That’s not a minor calendar adjustment. That’s a structural change in when time pressure builds, when positioning matters most, and when fast, decisive moves can form.

Three reset windows a week instead of one. Three mornings where the open either tips its hand — or doesn’t.

The edge is not in knowing there are more windows. The edge is in knowing which windows are real, which are noise, and which deserve nothing from you at all.

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 9:30 to 10:30 AM ET, you join Don live as the market opens.

That first hour is when same-day pressure starts to reveal itself. It’s when positioning begins to show. It’s when the real setups start separating from the noise — and when acting too early or too late defines the outcome.

You are not waiting for an alert after the move. You are not watching a replay that night. You are there with Don as he filters, narrows, reads, and decides — in real time, in the exact stocks you already follow.

This is not access to trades. It’s access to judgment. And in 0DTE, judgment is the whole game.

You see what he’s watching. You hear the direction he’s leaning. You know the contracts he’s stalking, the entry he’s waiting for, and — just as importantly — the setups he’s passing on entirely.

That last part is underrated. Knowing what not to trade keeps as much money in your account as knowing what to trade.

Yes — and here’s why.

The 9:30–10:30 window is the one hour most traders are most likely to be available. Before the workday fully hits. Before the commute takes over. Before the meetings pile up.

But even if you can only catch two of the three weekly sessions — or one — you are still getting more focused, structured, live same-day trading exposure than most traders get in a month of going it alone.

And every session is recorded. So if you miss it live, you can watch the decision-making process afterward — before the next reset window opens.

The question isn’t whether you can find 60 minutes three mornings a week. The question is whether you can afford to keep trading the open without this kind of structured guidance.

TSLA Apr 8, 2026 +251% same-day

TSLA Apr 6, 2026 +359% same-day

AAPL Mar 27, 2026 +72% same-day

AMZN Mar 25, 2026 +40% same-day

XSP Mar 23, 2026 +171% same-day

MSFT Jan 23, 2026 +95% same-day

IWM Jan 22, 2026 +206% same-day

Results shown are individual trade examples, not averages. Options trading involves substantial risk of loss.

“Today you traded an AMZN 0DTE — I made 100%! Thanks!”

- Kevin Preston

Every piece of DON-DTE is designed around one idea: help you trade the open with structure, judgment, and clarity — not noise. Here’s exactly what you get.

3x per week · Mon, Wed, Fri · 9:30–10:30 AM ET

This is the core of DON-DTE. Three mornings a week, you join Don Kaufman live during the exact hour when same-day options pressure begins to build. You’re not reading a recap. You’re not watching a screen recording from yesterday. You are in the room as the market opens, hearing Don’s read on what’s moving, what’s worth watching, and what to leave alone. These are the three reset windows that matter most each week — and you’ll be inside every one of them.

Live analysis as the open unfolds — not after the fact

During each live session, Don walks you through his real-time analysis of the stocks that carry same-day expiration: Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet. You’ll hear the direction he’s leaning, the contracts he’s watching, and — critically — the setups he’s choosing to pass on. This isn’t a signal blast. It’s a window into the decision-making process of someone with over 20 years of institutional experience. You learn how to read the open, not just react to it.

Specific levels. Defined risk. No guesswork.

When Don sees a setup worth acting on, he gives you the details: the specific entry level, the defined risk, and the reasoning behind it. This is not a vague “I like this one” and a ticker symbol. It’s a structured breakdown of what the trade is, why it’s worth taking, and where the line is if it doesn’t work. You always know the plan before you act.

Every session recorded. Watch live or catch the replay.

Every single live session is recorded and stored in your member vault. Miss a Monday morning? Watch the full replay before Wednesday’s open. Traveling and offline for a week? Catch up on all three sessions over the weekend. The vault doesn’t just protect you from missed sessions — it gives you a growing library of Don’s real-time decision-making that you can study, rewatch, and learn from long after the trade is over.

A deeper market read across the full week

On Tuesdays and Thursdays — the non-expiration days — Don broadens the lens. These bonus sessions cover the bigger-picture market dynamics that inform Monday, Wednesday, and Friday’s trades: sector rotation, volatility shifts, macro developments, and the positioning context that most same-day traders never see. Think of these as the connective tissue between your three reset windows. They make every live session sharper because you walk in with more context.

Bell-to-bell live trading from 100+ years of combined experience

Your DON-DTE membership includes full access to the TheoTrade Trade Desk — a live trading floor that runs from the opening bell to the close, staffed by traders with over a century of combined market experience. This means your access doesn’t end when Don’s 10:30 session wraps. If you want to keep watching, keep learning, and keep sharpening your edge throughout the trading day, the desk is open. Most services give you a single session and leave you on your own. DON-DTE keeps the door open all day.

Here’s the deal: join DON-DTE today and use everything for a full 30 days. Attend the live sessions. Watch the replays. Sit in on the bonus sessions. Use the Trade Desk. Put it all to the test against the way you’ve been trading on your own.

If at any point during those 30 days you feel like it hasn’t changed the way you see the open — if the live sessions didn’t sharpen your read, the entry guidance didn’t clarify your process, or the experience just wasn’t what you needed — email us and get every penny back.

No explanation required. No hoops. No hold period. No fine print.

If it isn’t valuable to you, you shouldn’t keep paying for it. That’s not a marketing line. That’s the deal.

Don has been doing this for over two decades. The live sessions speak for themselves. The results speak for themselves. The guarantee exists because we’re confident that once you see the difference between trading the open alone and trading it inside a structured process with Don — you won’t want to go back.

If you’ve been trading 0DTE — or watching it from the sidelines — and you still feel like you’re guessing more than you’re reading… this is for you.

If you’ve lost money at the open by acting too early, too late, or on a setup that turned out to be noise… this is for you.

If you want to stop spending five days a week glued to charts that never produce anything worth trading, and start being selective in the exact windows that actually matter… this is for you.

If you’ve spent money on trading services that delivered alerts with no context, education with no application, or recaps that came hours after the opportunity was gone… this is a fundamentally different experience.

You are not getting someone else’s trades. You are getting inside someone else’s thought process — live, during the minutes that matter most.

That is what changes how you trade. Not more information. Not more charts. The judgment that sits behind the decision.

The next reset window is about to happen. The question is whether you’ll be inside the process — or still guessing from the outside.

Options trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Testimonials shown are individual experiences and are not representative of typical results. All trade examples are for illustrative purposes only. TheoTrade LLC does not guarantee any specific outcome or profit.