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Autonomous Air Taxis Or "eVTOLs"

These are not new companies and these companies are know to beat their own drums. Making money is not a short term mandate. Look at the three I am mentioning. Now their three month charts. When one company has good news it tends to be a victory for all three companies. ............. I often talk about how exciting it is to play options on stocks in the five and ten dollar range. Here are three examples. But first what are the markets doing at 2:10 p.m. on a Monday? They are down. Here is this week's "end-of-the-week" Call options on Acher. Now unusual Machines and Joby. All of these option series were caught off guard. In all fairness trying to catch moves on these stocks with a one week time frame is a losing game. The thirty day time frame is more appropriate. Spend some time reading about all three of these companies. Stocks in this price range are somewhat speculative however all three of these companies are working on creating avaition history. On a d...

The Concept of Playing Thursday Options Which Expire the Next Day. Part One

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Thursday morning trading patterns in the first hour of trading reflect human emotions running high. Could your favorite stocks in the $200.00 and $300.00 price ranges jump up three dollars on Thursday and three dollars on Friday? Wishful thinkings often shared by option traders on Thursday mornings. Yesterday Boeing jumped up over $4.50 and then down over $7.00. Will it jump back up agian today? It's Call options look so tempting knowing what the stock sometimes does. Then there is Caterpillar which was off during the last two days after jumping up earlier this week on government stimulus news. Why isn't that stock flying? This morning I used the "out-of-the-money", the Caterpillar 212.50 Call option series that were like four dollars "out-of-the-money" with one day to go for a short term ride. Was I dreaming? Not really. Caterpillar had a strong opening and these options remained relativly flat because they were so far out-of-the money. I bought in at a p...