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NIO Could This Be The Real Thing?

Do you know the company? The stock first came to the DJIA back in 2018 at $6.25 a share and no it doesn't pay dividends. It took off. Here is it's share pricings dating back to when it first got listed. A lot of people got burned. Here was an overseas company boasting of having the fastest electric car in the world. Zoom went the stock and then it crashed. Now this. Today it had news. A quarterly earnings report and for the first time it turned a profit. That was a suprise.The new question is can they continue to do this or was this event just a splash in the pan? Look what happened this morning. This is a five day chart. Look at these 9:46 a.m. Call options and the 4:00 p.m. options. ... So this is a situation where you can buy in after the release of good news and still get out in the day at a profit. Imagine if this news came out on Thursday afternoon just after the closing bell? Inexpensive little soon to expire "one-day" Call options would shoot to the moon....

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?