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

Some option traders on Friday mornings just want to be in and out in the first hour or so of trading on short term options they feel comfortable trading. In the second half of the day most of the action calms down. Take your winnings and run. McDonalds sold off a little bit yesterday afternoon and firmed up a bit towards the closing. Could this "mostly downtrend" continue? Here is a partial look at the opening bell's action, today 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. Now this, McDonald's jumps up $4.98 and the 317.50 Puts we followed yesterday which are now "out-of-the-money" acted accordingly. 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 started to come off a touch. These Call options where not attacting all that much attention. The bid and ask jumped up ...

Boeing Exploded upwards and So Few Players Caught The Ride

In a recent Blog I made the comment many options players shy away from playing Boeing Calls. Why? Well it can be a mentality exhausting exercise. Boeing profits suprised this morning. Look at the price increases on some of these Boeing option series. -
These are the Boeing 220 Calls and the ones most likely to be on the radar screen of short term option players. There are only 1,839 outstanding option contracts open on this particular series of options and only 243 contracts traded just after the early release of this news. This are truly insignificant numbers compared to the usual number of outstanding open option positions on stocks like Apple. So the question is why were so few players waiting for this news release and trying to play it with Call options hoping it would go up? Why were expectations so muted? The takeaway. This will go down on the records as being one of the summers of 2021 best option trading situations. Analyst totally got this one wrong. It will also be a wakeup call to the importance of focusing on other near term earning releases. ** to find my most recent blogs like yesterday's blog about Deare scroll up to the top left icon which then takes you to earilier July blogs.

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