CAT Puts

Before we look at what the "Call-and-Put" option prices are on Nvidia going into a Monday morning I want to show you it's five day chart as of it's closing on Friday. It doesn't really tell us all that much except that it could pop on the opening to regain all that it has just lost. Now it's thirty day chart. Every couple of weeks it seems to swing by $20.00. Now let's look at the price of the 210 Calls and 210 Puts at the close last Friday that expire today which is a Monday.Yes Nvidia has options expiring today. How you feel about which way the market is going to open? Catch the action correctly and you could double your money. Now this on Monday morning. Nvidia opened up $.07 cents and kept going up. The chart might look like it was down on the opening however the downward action you see on the chart was in the last ten minutes of Friday's trading. The stock has jumped so we can now focus on options with a higher striking price, the 217.50 ...

The one week chart tells the entire story. A thirty day chart adds more detail. Moves this large seldom happen over such compressed periods of time. Look at how these two series of Call options traded on Friday. Back on May 6th I did a blog called "Ford Motor Company Calls On The Week" and in that blog I showed this chart. Back then it was still the same story. Also of note is the fact that Ford is not doing particularly well in their quest to churn out more vehicles. I think this stock will now take a breather. Anyone playing thirty day options on Ford during this time period will be up like three or four times on their initial investment. Naysayers take note. Opportunities do happen. Traders are even finding value in 2028 Ford option Calls! Now Hertz. Might car rentals pick up in the next month as summer months approaches? Yes gas prices are up however summer is when many people take vacations and want to hit the road. Flying is now getting expensive. Renting a car is...

First it's one and five day charts. The time period is near the end of the morning trading session on a Friday morning. Walmart and Costco are beat up. .. If you are thinking about looking for a rebound it doesn't help much that Costco is down over $40.00 on the day. Now here is the pricing on one series of Walmart Calls at 11:27 a.m.. Walmart is also trading down. Now here is the price on one series of Costco Calls at 11:28 a.m.. For what it's worth the D.J.I.A. remains strong. Most day traders just walk away from Friday afternoon "last-day-to-expiring" option trading. Now here are the two closing charts. Both series of Calls would have given you your money back but that's about it. The next week out Call options would have provided slight returns. When you see a $46.00 morning drop on Costco you know that the dust still has to settle.

Here is it's story. .... What a move it had yesterday followed by another upward move on the opening this morning. Here is how the D.J.I.A is trading at 10:45 a.m. Are the Calls or the Puts going to win on the day? ..... Notice the open interest in the Calls far exceeds the action in the Puts. That's almost always the way it is. What do you think is going to happen? Now this, a one day chart showing all of the action on the day. At 3:00 p.m., the deadline time period to get out the stock was trading at $252.15. Timing is everything. Anyone purchasing the 250 series of Calls around 12:30 p.m. when the stock as at $245.45 would have done wonderfully well.