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Walmart - Tight "Bids and Asks" Is An Admirable Feature

It's chart looks horrible... It's Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. which is one of the very best days of the week to be looking at options on stocks which will be expiring on Friday afternoon. I have said that often before. I also like it when the option makers for Walmart stand true to game with tight bids and asks. What this means is that if they see extreme price swings starting to happen they don't freak out and allow large gaps between the bids and ask and questionable fills. You might not understand what I am talking about. It's a nice stock to trade options on and getting "in-and-out" of option positions on it tend to happen seamlessly. Look at the open interest in this series of options. It's next to nothing. On Monday there was this news. Costco is feeling the same pain. Is there to much negative energy and confusion in this space? Time will tell. To be continued.

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 ...