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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 ...

Ford 14 Calls

Ford 14 Calls with only a few days to go. I have talked before about Call option trading on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and I have talked many times about playing Call options on Ford. Look at what is happening.
. Ford is basking in a spell of good news. Look also at Ford on the opening last Friday fourteen minutes into the opening.
. Contrast this to the time period ten or fifteen years ago when amongst other things they faced rollover issues one model of their trucks. That one issue alone badgered them for many years. Let the good times roll. **** look at the high and low on the 14.5 Ford Calls today. Attention to detail is everything.

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