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Tesla Calls On A Tuesday That Expire the Next Day

Would you play one day "out-of-the money" options on a series of Calls that are already down 75% on the day and expire the next day? Seems kind of stupid right? I am talking about Tesla. Tesla trades on the Nasdaq which is taking a beating. Why buy in here at this particular period of time when the support levels on it are still few dollars lower? Why buy Calls with only 1.5 trading days life left in them? Well at 1:00 p.m. the afternoon portion of the market is about to begin and these options are trading at their lows of the day. "One-day-option-traders" have to think in terms of what might happen in the next two hours or so. If a rebound happens in the next two hours just get in and out. These types of option traders take risk on chart patterns that have yet to make reversals. It's can be a lonely and expensive game to play and if the desired results do not pay off one must quickly revert to different strategies. How the closing chart looks today will hop...
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Ford's Largest One Day Share Price of The Year - Or Santa Claus Came Early.

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Ok, so yesterday, a Thursday I looked at Ford because management was in the news saying they are going to stop taking more preorders on their upcoming F150 electric truck. They have too many orders. They were also saying look out world - we are going electric. V.W. and Toyota were also making similiar claims. Here is a look at Ford at 12:11 p.m. today. At noon Ford was up 5.6% and their short term options which expire today were up ten fold. Stocks the size of Ford seldom jump that much in one morning. Why didn't lightbulbs go off in my head yesterday saying lets take a flyer on Ford Call options for tomorrow with one day's trading life left in them? That would be the Dec 10th 20 Calls. As you can see, the 20 Calls this morning went from .06 or six dollars a contract to .61 or sixty one dollars a contract at noon! Then looked at how they ended up the day. A .06 or six dollar contract would be worth one hundred and forty three dollars! A six hundred dollar investment would be ...
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