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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. The stocks listed below were also part of this 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 options tha...

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Are a new animal and sometimes go dormant until something happens. If your a fan of "Caterpillar","Ford" or "Boeing" options you're 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 ...