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McDonalds Again And A Follow Up To Yesterday's Blog..

Option traders on Friday mornings just want to be in and out in the first hour or so of trading on short term options. In the second half of the day most of the action calms down. McDonalds sold off a little bit yesterday afternoon and firmed up a bit towards the closing. Could this "mostly downward trend" continue? Here is a partial look at some of the opening bell's activity. Today is a Friday however let us first look at how the stock traded yesterday. Now a look at it's trading pattern at 9:32.22 a.m. The McDonald stock jumped up $4.98 and the 317.50 Puts we followed all day yesterday which are now "out-of-the-money" acted accordingly. They shrunk in value. During the fist 2.22 minutes of trading they traded down to 34 dollars a contract. Now this. In the first three minutes of trading the stock jumped a bit and then started to come off a touch. These Call options where not attacting all that much attention. The bid and ask jumped up on no volume. ...
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Working The Market To Make $200.00 On A Friday Morning

"Boeing" was nervous on the opening and "Caterpillar" flexed it's muscles in the usual way. I had an hour to spare but wasn't interested in following the market all day so I did some trading, 3 buys and sells and got tired towards the end and closed out the third position to get on with my day. The end result was a $200.00 profit. Here is what it all looks like.
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I could have done better but I am o.k. with what happened. Early Friday morning trading can work well if your focused. I was out in just under 50 minutes."Boeing" closed down the day forty cents and "Caterpillar" closed up eighteen cents. It was a day which was difficult to break their bank.

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