CAT Puts

Why would you want to? Well consider this. Big Bear Ai. It's a $3.00 per share stock. Could Call options on this stock that expire tomorrow double in price on the opening? This stock was running hot earlier this year and was at that time trading massive of shares. It now seems to be out of favor. Now this. On Thursday it's Calls that expire on Friday closed at $.05 after hitting a high of $.10 on the day. $.05 is $5.00 dollars a contract. Ten contracts would cost you $50.00. So what happened on Friday's opening? Here is what happened. More than a double! After checking the proof of it more than doubling below I am going to show you how Hertz Calls closed on Tuesday. Look at this unusual chart. It's the kind of chart which can jump upwards on the opening. It's now Friday morning. Remember the closing price yesterday on Hertz's next week out Call options? They closed at $.28. Here they are now! Ths time the chart told the story this could happen! One day opt...

Here are two series of it's option that expire tomorrow. At 11:23 a.m. the Puts finally broke. Previous blogs talk about how Boeing has been so strong. Fighting strong stocks is a battle so the interest in them is not all that great. Here is how it closed the day. Few traders caught this downside action. Fighting strong stocks is a dangerous game. If you get the direction wrong with options that expire the very next day you are finished.

Here they are. What I want to show you is the open interest at 10:29 a.m. and the open interest as 10:31 a.m. I have talked about this before, computer generated traded kicking in at 30 minute intervals. Now this. Nothing happened. In option trading there is always a bias to the upside. What this tells me is that fot the next ten minutes of so I don't see Boeing surging upwards. Here is it's morning chart at 10:43.a.m., thirteen minutes later. Now the Puts. Now the Put action at 11:20 a.m. with the D.J.I.A up 460 points. One option at this point in time is to give up and sell out and get your money back. Most traders don't think that "one-week-options" offer this versatility. They do. Getting back your money playing Puts on a morning the D.J.I.A is up 460 points is a win in itself. Just get out and look at this situation on a day the indexes are not so strong. Here is how Boeing closed the day. This trading activity never ends.

What a chart. A safer bet would be these "near-the-money" Puts. But wait. Only 32 contracts traded. It's wednesday and that's the day of the week big on option reversals for "one-week-options". In a world of computer generated trades why aren't more option contracts popping up on our screen? Boeing has 182,000 thousand employees each with their own special insights as to how their company is doing. We just reported a share price oncrease of 8% in one day. It doesn't get any better than this to speculate that Boeing could give up some of this gain. Let's think bigger. Boeing might go up another ten dollars in the next two days and fifty dollars in the next thirty days. It has the power to do that. But what happens if all of Trumph's this week peace rhetoric goes up in smoke? This is not a bet on Boeing. It's a bet on Trumph. In option trading you sometimes have to make trades that are not comfortable and even if you lose you know it'...

It's Tuesday morning and Boeing jumped up $17.30 on the previous day. That's a jump in the stocks price of 8%. Here is it's one day chart. There was news. It helped that the markets in general had a good day. Will the stock jump again on the opening? In premarket trading it's slightly up. Can you catch the downside action with Puts on the opening? Should you? Is fighting a strong stock a stupid thing to do? Here we are three minutes into the trading action. The stock is only up a touch yet these two series of Puts are down, one series 37% and the second series 41% and the trading day is just opening. Both are super leveraged trading vehicles. But wait. The bad news is that the markets are surging up. Caterpillar is on fire. Is hanging around with Boeing Puts a smart idea in times like this? Not really. Just get out. Get out. Forget this ever happened. Who cares if these Puts go even higher. A ten minute trade lets you get on with the day. Caterpillar also offered...