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Lucid. Options On $6.00 Dollar Stock With Two Days To Go Are Difficult To Trade

What do you think about this chart? It's one of those falling of a cliff charts. It's a Thursday morning and it looks like this stock is kind of in a downdraft. Look at my most recent blog on Rivian. The bad news on Lucid could be a hangover effect caused by Rivan's one day prior bad news story. It was talk about Rivian going back to the markets to raise more money even though they were starting to lose less of it. It was a good-news, bad- news story. A story which would take a few days for the markets to digest. Let's now look at two series of Lucid's Calls which expire tomorrow. We now find ourselves forty one minutes into the market's opening trading action. The 26 series of "out-of-the-money" Calls that expire tomorrow are trading last at $.03 cents. ... Now this. Now look a this small rebound twenty five minutes later. .. Here is where it gets a touch confusing. The $5.50 Calls which were once at $.22 cents are now $.30 and the $6.00 series of...

"Ford" and an Extreme Opportunity Missed

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If you were out cruising in your Mustang convertable on Friday you probably missed this action. It's a shame because had you purchased $1,000 of a certain "Ford" series of "Call" options on the opening and sold out just after lunch you would have made enough money to turn your ride into something a lot nicer, something like $47,000 nicer. Honestly, this did happen and it wasn't all that complicated trade. This blog from this point on is going to write itself. Try and follow this action. Look at the high and low on these options. .01 and .47 . One thousand dollars actually turned into $47,000 if you caught it right. I have talked about how options on stocks in the ten and fifteen dollar range can often be darlings to play and "Ford" and "U.S." Steel are two of these darlings with options series that are the most splendid to play because their liquidity is excellent, bid and ask prices tight and price movements swings on only five and te...