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Deere Trading Sideways On October 1st 2024 - Few People Trade These Ones

The stakes are huge. Is Deere slipping? Here is it's five day chart. Could Deere slip to $412.00 on the opening? If it did, could it slip further? The chart looks to me like it wants to open lower. Could you grab some Call options on a weak opening and try to play it for a rebound? Does history repeat itself? Here are how the 417.50 series of Calls traded yesterday on Oct 1st. Can you see how they dipped on the opening and came charging back up? That's the kind of action option traders like to see. Look at how few contracts trade on a daily basis. Clearly trading Deere options is like skating on thin ice. To add some sort of prespective on todays action here is how the indexes traded today. Shown above was Deere's five day chart. Here now is a look at how Deere traded traded today. After a nervous start it showed some strenght in the early afternoon. Now a premarket look at Deere on Wednesday October 2nd. Look at these four stocks and look at the premarket bids and ask

Let's Think about Going For a Ride "Boeing"

Monday was a long and sideways day for "Boeing". Things didn't look so great an hour into this mornings trading. Here is it's one day and five day chart. It's first quarter's earning report is now history.
Here now is how one series of options traded on it. The "C" stands for "Calls" and the "P" stands for "Puts". Look at how the daily trading volume on the "Call" side is so much greater than on the "Put" side. Also look at how the open interest are smaller than the daily volume of options traded. What that tells us that traders are playing interday swings. It's safer not holding onto overnight postitions. Do you want to be part of this action? The nice thing for Monday traders on short term "Call" options is the safety of having four trading days left in this series.
Let's check back at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow to look for a playable swing. I missed 10:30 a.m. self imposed check in time. Here is the action at 10:45 a.m. The DJI was down 275 points. Was 10:30 a.m. was the time to get in? You decide.
Yet another look at noon. Does it now look like it wants to bounce?
Here now is a look at another series of "Puts", the 240 series of "Puts" at 12:20 p.m.. Does this now give you a better appreciation of the power of playing the downside?
Now it's 2:10 p.m. and here is what I did. I got out of what I bought during the morning. Why did I get out? One reason is that this is a teaching website and I want to show my readers that short term traders can poke away and eak out small returns. Are you also able to see how at about 2:45 p.m. it looked like the rebound was slowing down. It's difficult at times to be riding a wild horse.
In at $3.40 and $2.85 and out at $3.72 .
**** an end of the day update... the markets came charging back and I got out to soon. Here is what these options ended up closing at. More about my thoughts on this later. This turned out to be an exciting day for mid week option traders.
It's strange how noon time turned out to be the low of the day.

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