CAT Puts

Apple moves up in the first hour of trading on a Wednesday. Are there reasons now to be looking at it's Puts? Well with computer generated trading the 10:00 a.m. time period might magically click in to be a "time-of-a-reversal". We are two minutes away from that happening at 10:00 a.m.. Let's check back in twenty five minutes to see what happens. The small upward spike on top of an initial spike did not hold. That's the way I see it anyways.The 10:00 a.m. trading mark was a speed bump that served to change the upward projectory of this stock. Now a revisit to this situation twenty minutes later. Apple shed these worries. With "last day to expiring options" the 10:00 a.m. morning time period is often fraught with worries. That's just the way it is. Now let's focus in on this action just minutes before the 3:00 p.m. option expiracy deadline. Are you starting to understand the power of mid week option trading?

Itching to find something to do in the markets on a Tuesday morning? Well it's not a typical Tuesday morning from a trading perspective because Monday was a holiday and the markets were closed. Traders are just getting back to work. What about Nvidia options that expire at 3:00 p.m the next day? You're gauranteed that the liquidity found in these options will be great. The markets are opening somewhat sideways with some strenght in the Nasdaq as shown as of 10:20 a.m.. The real action happened in the first few minutes of trading which is commonly the case. Look at this early morning readout of Nvidia just ten minutes into the trading session. ... What do we see happening? Focus on it's chart. Nvidea closed at 215.62 and opened at $215.70. Then it moved up slightly like it did on it's previous Thursday's opening and to a lessor degree on it's Friday opening.(This is a one day chart as of 10:45 a.m.). In the very first two minutes of trading the Puts slipped do...

Boeing is one stock you can mess around with on Friday mornings. It can move like $5.00 in one day and it's last day to expiring Calls and Puts often pay off big time. Here I am this morning looking at it's five chart. I like the fact it opened stronger and then came off. Look at these two "out-of-the-money" series of Calls that expire today. It's a gamble that requires Boeing to go up. That's why them are priced so cheap. A lot can happen in the next five hours of trading. Look at how it was trading at a higher price on the previous day. Notice the 60 and 62 percent drops in value on these "out-of-the-money Calls" in the first eight minutes of trading. Now this. Boeing continues to stall out. Now let's jump forward to the 2:50 p.m. time period. The deadline to get out is 3:00 p.m. ... So what is the takeaway? A strong market helped the outcome. The $.24 cent options hit a high of $.79 and the $.55 options we first looked at jumped as high a...

First, forget everything you know about Tesla's current state of operational history. Forget their news about their new factory in Germany, their new models and how many kids a fifty four year old fellow named Elon Musk has. Focus on the moment. In this case it's a Thursday afternooon and we are looking at options on Tesla it that expire the very next day. The interesting thing in this situation is that we are catching Tesla trading flat on the day. It has maintained for the last 2.5 hours a slight predisposition to the upside. Now this as we approach 1:00 p.m.. We find a price of $4.70 for the Call option shown above. These Calls are just slightly "in-the-money" and expire the next day. Things could change even before the end of the day. It takes big money to buy in and the risk is high. I get it. The Puts will also cost you chunk of money. It's Tesla and you are trading with some of the ...