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Chat GPT Told Me I Need To Be More In The Moment. Boeing Again

It's Friday morning. The stock in question is Boeing after going down in price for the entire previous day. That was the topic of my previous blog. What I am now showing is how the stock Boeing was trading seconds before the opening bell in the premarkets on Friday morning and what the 205 series of Calls "closed-out-at" on the previous day. That number was $1.85 down from a high of $7.50 on that day. The volume traded shown on the the first screen below are stock trades in the Friday morning premarkets, not option trades. Options do not trade in the premarkets however premarket option orders get filled at 9:30 a.m. at the opening price then posted. In the premarkets this morning around 9:00 a.m. it showed Boeing up about $5.00. Had you entered an "at-market-sell" ticket on overnight Call options you might be holding your fill will not give you that five dollar gain. You will get a fill based on the the 9:30 a.m. opening price. Now this, just three minutes aft...

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 ...