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What A Week For Market Swings. This Time Boeing

My last two blogs have focused on options expiring on Mondays and Wednesdays. This blog on a Thursday deals with options that expire tomorrow on Friday. AS A GENERAL RULE PURCHASING CALLS ON A THURSDAY MORNING THAT EXPIRE THE VERY NEXT DAY IS NOT A SMART MOVE TO MAKE. We have witnessed huge daily price swings this week where profits from option trading can be made in a matter of hours. Now let's look at Boeing's morning action. Sometimes when you see charts like this and if you're coming off a streak of three or four profitable trades it's best to jump in hoping for a reversal to the upside and ask questions later. Especially when the D.J.I.A is strongly up in price as it was. I quickly looked around and couldn't find any news to account for this price drop. Trumph was in China and we later learned that there was talk of China ordering 200 more of Boeing's new airplanes. China is always going to want more airplanes. Talk like this is only talk. Now this at 9:51...
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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.
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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?
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