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A Random Walk In The Park On A Monday Morning. A Caution. Monday Mornings Are Often Not An Option Players Best Friend

Let's start with this. It's now 10:26 a.m. A bet on Caterpillar rebounding by the end of the week. There are no takers. Why have to watch the screen for the next four days in agony waiting for a rebound which if happens is just a "break even trade"? But Wait. I made a mistake. The market is actually now down 668 points. What else can we look at? Interactive Brokers. These kind of stocks always do poorly on days with the threat of margin calls. Yet there is something interesting about the printout I am about to show. It is that these options are "one-month-out" Calls. These longer term options trade differently than short term options. (these options trade in one month intervals). If the stock we are following stops it's freefall the value of the options will nudge up ten, fifteen or twenty percent. A seven dollar option Call might creep back up to $8.00 or $9.00 at which time it could be sold. In contrast with a five day option a slight reversal in ...

Boeing and Google Calls the Best on the Day After a 800 Point Dip.

No one saw the drop coming. It was a really bad day. Stock holders would now be caculating their forty percent losses in their portolio to now reaching fifty percent. That's how bad it was. Some people say that playing options is to difficult to do yet owning stock is not always a walk in the park. Here are two of clips. The first one shows what was happening with the stock Google and the second clip shows
Boeing. These are of rebounds in the markets near the end of the trading day. The last hour of trading. Frequent "Google" and Boeing-option-traders" loved it. Now here are the opening numbers thirty minutes into the market on the following day. Things are up enough to give Call option traders a tradable opportunity.
Now can to see option trading as being interesting? Here is the strange thing. Go back and see the number of contracts traded on Google in the first three or four minutes of trading. There was suprisingly only one. With the size of our earth and the millions of people in the stockmarket why did only one trade happen which would have included premarket activity? That's strange to me. On the next day Wednesday, Boeing popped.

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