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Friday One Day Option Trading Cut to The Chase

Let's start with Nvidia Puts on Friday March 15th, Over 55,000 contracts traded on this one series alone on the day.. ... The lows of the day happened when Nvidia was trading around $186.00 in the early morning. It was a smooth move downwards after that. Here is how the DJIA closed the day. 2) Number two on our list is Home Depot. It opened stronger on Friday morning however it closed the day totally flat. Here is how one series of it's Puts closed the day. Notice the spread between the near opening high and the low of the day. It like Nvidia sold off most of the day. 3) Tesla. One series of it's Put options traded over 45,000 contracts on the day. Other series may have traded more. It's chart like the two above was mostly down all day. .. 4) Apple is another stock that took a hit for over $5.00 on Friday. Here is how one series of it's Puts traded. 5) Caterpillar. In this case the big move down happened in the first hour of trading. So what is my point? Wel...
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Ford - An Earning Report

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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