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Tesla Call Options On A Friday Morning

First, here is what the D.J.I.A index is doing, not that it matters all that much. These Calls are down like 50% from the previous day. Tesla did drop on the previous day, a day in which the market dropped 669 points. Some stocks are having a good morning. Look at Snowflake. Might Tesla wake up and take off again? The same with Apple which had a big fall on the previous day. This kind of nervousness is what Friday morning one day option trading is all about. Some option traders capitalize on situations like this buying instead next weeks out day (five day) options. Let's see what happens. Now this at 12:42 p.m. The DJIA index is creeping up. .. I don't really like the slow creep back up knowing that with any bad market news everything could sell off in a heartbeat. I would just get out. That's me. To be continued. Here is how these Telsa Call were trading at the 3:00 p.m. get out deadline. Now here is how Tesla closed the day. Sometimes taking profits when you see them...

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?