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The Auto Industry Is Under Control

Look at this printout. Almost every stock on this list was totaly flat. Tesla up fifteen cents. Do you know how seldom this happens? It never does. Yet it happened today. Now this, a chart of how Telsa traded on the day. Look at the three hour price swing between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Now this. The 30 day out Call options on Tesla. Now the thirty day out Put options. They mimic the same kind of price swings. Intraday price swings of $7.20 and $6.97 on these two series of options. So why is this important? Watching thirty day out options is increasingly becoming a smarter way of churning out profits. In these examples one is putting out sums of money like $2,000.00 U.S. with the expections of daily returns, well in this case about $700.00. I know what you might be thinking. You might be thinking that the risk/reward aspect of the equation doesn't make sense. In response to those concerns I would say employing this strategy works best for traders already engaged in trading ot...

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Are a new animal and sometimes go dormant until something happens. If your a fan of "Caterpillar","Ford" and "Boeing" options your not really looking in that space. Sometimes it nice to have a list of "outside the box" companies" to watch. Here is one of those list and here is my experience with one of those such companies. Well, not the exact list but one similar to it. - this one with the symbol "APXT' I played it yesterday and today. In at noon yesterday, ten contracts at .35 each and out the next morning June 3th 2021 at 7:14 a.m. at .95 each. I kind of saw it go up after I bought so yes I did put in a sell ticket early in the morning at a price I was thinking it would hit. What happened was kind of interesting. Call it a perfect storm as the company came out with a news report. Option traders know that one dollar increase on ten dollar stocks can do wonders, even if we are talking about regular stocks and not spacs. A coupl...