UP?/DOWN?
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You don't need to know.
Move Markets
Trade The Move.
Not The Direction.
Trade how far stocks and ETFs will move — without predicting up or down.
Why Wick
Direction isn't everything.
You don't need to predict whether NVIDIA goes up or down. You only need to predict how far it goes.
NVDA5%+
MOVE68¢
STAY32¢
You only need to know how far.
The Wick
A different question.
Traditional markets ask where price is going. WICK markets ask how far. Every market defines a starting price, a move threshold and an expiry.
MoveMoveStay
$193.20+5%
$174.80−5%
Start
$184.00
$184.00+0.00%
NVDA5% Wick
Expires Sep 11Stay wins
Asset
NVDA · NVIDIA
Start price$184.00
Move threshold5.00%
Upper bound$193.20
Lower bound$174.80
ExpirySep 11
MOVE wins if the absolute percentage change between the start price and the expiry price is at least 5.00%. Above or below — it doesn't matter which.
Trending Wicks
How much does it move?
Events
Big event?
Trade the reaction.
Earnings, macro releases and market events create movement. WICK turns that movement into a market.
How It Works
Three steps.
Zero Greeks.
Pick an asset. Pick the move. Pick a side.
Pick an asset
NVDASPYTSLA
Stocks and ETFs.
Pick the move
2%5%10%
Choose the threshold you believe price will or won't exceed.
Pick a side
MoveStay
Winning shares settle at $1.
+7% wins.
−7% wins too.
Direction doesn't matter when you're trading magnitude.
NVDA
Start $184.00NVDA
5% WICK · Settled
Expiry $197.65
+7.42%
Move
Absolute move 7.42% is above the 5% threshold — either way.
Settlement
One number decides it.
Start price. Expiry price. Absolute move. Settlement.
Start
Recorded at open
$184.00
Expiry
Recorded at close
$197.44
Absolute move
Sign discarded
7.30%
5% Wick
Threshold cleared
7.30% ≥ 5.00%
Move wins
$1.00 per share