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One Day Options On One Of The Most Difficult Stocks To Play Options On. Carvana

Carvana has a dubious reputation. Insider stock manipulation. That's old news. Who knows what is going on now to cause the stocks volatitity. You Tube videos about this stock are curiously asking if they are pulling their numbers out of a hat. Here is it's five day chart and here is how their "two-day-until-expiring" Call and Put options are positioned going into tomorrows (Thursday's) trading session. .... Both are crazy expensive however they do offer two days of trading activity. That's a long time for options on a stock like Carvana. Look at the dip and the rebound it had on Wednesday. Now I am jumping ahead to Friday, the final day of trading on these two series of options. Look at this. First a five day chart showing Thursdays and Friday's action. Now it's Friday only chart. So what's important about this one day chart? This. Look at how it's Calls options traded. The Call holders lost all their money. Now look at the Puts.Thi...

"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...