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One Day Boeing Puts On A Friday

It's 9:56 a.m. Now it's five day chart. This is where it will get interesting. Notice it has a rebound off a soft opening? Traders who used the 212.50 series of Calls on Boeing's soft opening were already well rewarded. Only 121 contracts traded during that period of time Here is what the indexes are doing. So that's it. You could wager $100.00 U.S. plus commisions for one contract or multiples thereof and walk again. It's a bet on your abilities to recognize chart formations. Now this. If you bought in and a small gain materializes in a matter of minutes do you take it? Sorry. It's now 10:46 a.m. There is no gain. That opportunity never presented itself. In fact these $1.00 Puts we were once excited about dropped down at one point in time to $.42. .. If you signed up to be part of the action can you see the mess you are now in? Here we are seven minutes later and things for these Puts are starting to get a touch better.That's how quickly things can mov...

Ford - An Earning Report

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Ford is going electric, that's the buzz. We all know the story. Earnings just came out on the stock and the Call options jumped on the opening. If you were playing options you had to get out just after the opening. With option plays on earning reports that's usually the way to best way play them. First, I will show the prior day's action. There was a gap down on the opening and 94 million shares traded. That's a large number. People were cashing out after recent good times. Now here is a chart of Ford the next day and here is how two option series traded. Buy in at the close and sell out just after the opening. Look at how high each series traded up to just after the opening. The earning numbers were not all that great but it's the buzz about going electric. Ford is one of the better stocks out there to play earning report releases. ** Scroll up to the upper left and read my most recent blog on MacDonald's earning report.

McDonald's And An Earnings Report

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I was sitting in the drive through line yesterday at McDonalds redeeming a free coffee sticker won from being there a few days prior. It was a long line up for mid-afternoon. I am not a fast food junkie. I found myself thinking of how the Domino Pizza stock was on a terror for much of last year but not so much now. When we were all locked in last year everyone was ordering their pizza. I was also wondered if they would now accept my little free coffee sticker as it was only thumbnail size. Then when I pulled up to the drive thru window I hit a patch of bees. Apparently for whatever reason they were enjoying being at that window. They gave me my free coffee. Boy it was busy there. I note in this option series that there were only 292 open contracts. That small number suprises me. Why didn't more option players see this coming?