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Tesla Option Trading At A New Level. This Is An Important Read.

Tesla now has option series that expire on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A handfull of other stocks shown below have also switched to this same format. Before that they expired only once a week on Friday with traders often wondering if they should jump onboard Thursday seconds before the closing bell looking for a definitive move on the opening. With this new 'three-times-a-week" format traders will be watching the action on Fridays, prior to the markets closing, looking for Monday morning moves. This switchover started back on January 28th of this year. All of the stocks listed below were part of this new change. Now watch the wild action on one series of Tesla Calls today. First it's five day chart. Now it's early Monday morning chart. Look at how it has given up it's opening gain. Option traders who bought Call options just before the close last Friday had a morning opportunity to get out at a decent profit. Now this, a look at one series of its Call optio...

"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...