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Netflix And It's Ten For One Reverse Stock Split

No longer is Netflix a $1,000 stock. Now the common man can buy it. That's the new logic. Today Netflix is now trading after a "ten-for-one-reverse-stock-split". Netflix was up $8.51 last week when it was trading at it's old level of over $1,000 per share. Perhaps the street was buying in last week on the hopes that a new wave of buyers will be buying in at this weeks newly adjusted price. Now this, it's five day chart. Now this weeks Call and Put options an hour or so into the opening markets. Whatever happens it's not going to be a comfortable ride. Maybe it could go both ways. Now it's end of day readings. ..... ..... Here is how the markets closed the day. The now current question is which way will this stock trade on an upward day? One unusual factor is that the open interest in the Puts far outweighs the open interest in the Calls. To me that's counter intuitive. To me that looks like trap for all the Put holders. Usually there are more Call...

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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...