CAT Puts

It's Thursday and the DJIA is up. Here is how Netflix is doing. Now this. Remember that this stock recently did a 10-1 forward stock split. Things don't look good, why isn't the stock sharing in today's upward glee? In situations like this it's best just to stay away. Look at how cheap the Call options look that expire tomorrow. They look tempting however next weeks Call options offer so much more security. Now this at 12:38 p.m. The markets continue to go up. Netflix continues to sell off. Now I am showing tomorrows and next week's Calls just after noon hour. The options that will take the most heat for the rest of the day will be the short term options. There are decent volumes in both of these series of options. An end of the day report. First the options that expire tomorrow. It would be silly to be in this series of Calls. Now next weeks Calls. Now it's five day chart. One week options are a long way away. Stocks with a bias to the downsi...

The DJIA index closed up 588 points on the day, a Wednesday after losing 870 points on the previous day. Now Pfizer's one day chart. Can you see how it got dragged up in today's action? I like Puts which are slightly in the money. Now this, a look at it's Puts which expire on Friday. Now this. There was no trading in them during the last 2.5 minutes of trading. In some ways that's a good thing. Could tomorrow's market open down? Here is what it's five day chart now looks like. At 9:32 a.m. this morning it was trading at $25.62 and at 10:02 a.m. it traded down to $24.44. A drop like that on tomorrow's opening would do wonders for these Puts. Let's see what happens. Now this. Thursday morning. It's not what I was hoping for but at 9:35 a.m. it did drop down to $25.76. You can see that on the chart. Here is what the markets are doing at 10:33 a.m. These Puts are getting crushed. An end of the day reading. These Puts are in trouble. Let'...

It's Wednesday. .... Now this. But wait. Look at how it's one day chart changed over the next few hours. I took a couple of hours away from the market to go swimming and I missed much of the downward action. Here is another chart showing how these Puts just traded. They went from $350.00 to $708.00 at 12:35 p.m. in less than an hour! I wrote a similiar blog about Google moving like this ( one day short term trades ) back on January 13th. Trumph has a way making statements which then moves the markets. The strenght this afternoon comes from statements he is not going to impose tariffs on Greenland. What we now have is a market ripe for extreme daytrading.

The world is politically unstable and Exxon jumped on the opening. Can you jump in and play it for the downside over the next two days? The real money was made by option traders who jumped into Call options yesterday before the close knowing that Trumph was ramping up his rhetoric on pushing around Greenland. His talking last week about getting involved in the Venezuela oil markets pushed up Exxon and Chevrions stock prices. Here are their five day charts. ... Now consider this. A bet on the Puts to make you money over the next two days puts you in the driver's seat on playing the downside. Would this be a reckless trade to make or one that shows your wisdom in calling Trumph out on his reckless path of destruction? You decide. Now this. What this shows are how "out-of-the-money" Exxon Calls reacted to this morning's opening. What a nice return to it's call holders.. Might things cool of a bit over the next two days? Here are the Puts that expire this Friday. Wo...