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Looking For Something To Buy On A Tuesday Afternoon?

How about one of these two situations. First Nvidia. The markets are strong and Nvidia was up smartly on the previous day. These Calls expire tomorrow and are over one dollar "out-of-the-money" so they are high risk. That plus Tuesdays going into a Wednesday in short term option trading is not as good as Friday going into Monday situations. See my recent blog about Tesla Calls going into the opening markets yesterday morning which was a Monday. Might not Exxon suprise. You can see the price of oil is down today but could it stop falling? Exxon is off in price a chunk and the Calls offered a good buying opportunity this morning.. Moves downwards this much in a one day time period are somewhat rare. Let's see what happens. That leads us to a new topic. Overtrading. I like Fridays for it's one day options and for it's late in the day look at it's "next-week-out-options" which might at this point in time be somewhat mispriced. Resets in pricings can s...

"One Day Options" With Both Tesla and Nvidia Having Options On Them Which Expire Today

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The war is over so says Trumph and both of these stocks jump on this good news. Here are their one day charts. First Tesla. It closed at $406.43 and jumped to over $412.00 in the first four minutes of trading. Now look at two series of it's Calls, Calls that expired this afternoon. Once again, the best action of the day happened in the first four minutes of trading. Nvidia also spiked on the day. This time we are only going to show one series of it's Calls. The D.J.I.A. was up on the day. The markets don't get much better than this. In this case the big money was made by option traders purchasing Tesla "Calls" on Friday that expired today. Go figure with Space X doing so well.

The Same Old Game Of Buying One Day Boeing Options On A Friday Morning

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You decide. Do you like this chart? The real action in the Calls happened yesterday, on a day the DJIA was up almost 1,000 points. Now a look at these one day Calls options 10 minutes into the trading session. It's early in the day. It's 9:51 a.m. .... Is the stock stabilizing? Let's move down one series of Call options.We are still in the first thirty minutes of trading. Now a 10.10 a.m. look at the 217.50 Calls. Now the 220 Calls we first started looking at. What's going to happen? To be continued. The closing numbers and a one day chart. It didn't disappoint. The 1:20 p.m. time period was the time to get out. Here is how the DJIA closed the day. So you might say that this is a stupid game to play with the risk levels amazingly high. Space X was abuzz with news today and Boeing had a scorching hot day yesterday. Today's trading activity was merely a walk in the park. One day option trading can sometimes be your best friend. To read other blogs on Boe...

$Caterpillar Calls On A Day The Stock Goes Up $41.00.

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Let's start with it's five day chart. Today is Thursday. Here is what the DJIA did on the day. Here is what it's "near-to-the-money" Calls did. What stands out to me? Only 37 contracts traded and an open interest in this series of Calls of 36. This series of Call options expire tomorrow. What about the next week out Call options with the same striking price? How did they trade? It's unusual to have a higher open interest number. What about the longer term Call options, the ones thae expire near the end of July?. There is no real interest in them. What about the "near-to-the-money" Puts that expire tomorrow? Once again the action in them is next to nothing. If the stock gives up half of what it gained today these Puts would triple in value in one day. Now here is Caterpillars "year-to-date" chart. Holding one day to expiring or one week to expiring Call or Put options on stocks like this in the $900.00 price range attracts little in ...

$Home Depot And $Lowes On A Wednesday Morning

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These are both what I would call "Big Boy"stocks which are somewhat volatile. Their price movements are often dictated by economic reports. Today is a Wednesday which is mid week in the weekly trading session. Options purchased this morning that expire this Friday will give you one full day of trading today and two more full days of trading. Both of these two stocks are up about $10.00 per shsre in the last two days. Both stocks can move either way. My focus is on the Puts which are both somewhat expensive. They have to be because these stocks are so volatile.Catch the right direction and you will do quite well. Retail stocks like this have a wide following and the price of both of these stocks can be affected by a number of differing ecomomic reports. For this reason the timing of swings can be somewhat of a guessing game. Now this. New home sales in the U.S.A. where down 6.2% in March and down 11.3% in April. It's May numbers are not released until June 24th. Now Home ...

$Hertz. Sometimes One Month Out Options Can Be Your Very Best Friend

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One month until expiring options can be your very best friend. This time however we are looking at options on a stock in the five dollar range which are less predictable in nature compared to stocks in higher price ranges. The pace in trading them can be slower. Case in point is Hertz. View the following information. First it's trading chart today followed by it's five day chart. ... They are July 17th options and you can see how they had a slight pop on the opening. One of the things I like about this situation is how it's peirs in the industry are trading on the day. Now this readout. Notice the high of $.77 earlier in the morning. Let's move on to Tuesday morning. All three of the stock's piers are up. Whether it's drone stocks or drug stocks or auto retailing stocks it helps when the sector your'e trying to play is in agreeance with you're line of thinkings. Once again it is. Now this. Chat GTP would advise you from staying away from positions li...