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Mid Week Morning Option Trading . Apple

Apple moves up in the first hour of trading on a Wednesday. Are there reasons now to be looking at it's Puts? Well with computer generated trading the 10:00 a.m. time period might magically click in to be a "time-of-a-reversal". We are two minutes away from that happening at 10:00 a.m.. Let's check back in twenty five minutes to see what happens. The small upward spike on top of an initial spike did not hold. That's the way I see it anyways.The 10:00 a.m. trading mark was a speed bump that served to change the upward projectory of this stock. Now a revisit to this situation twenty minutes later. Apple shed these worries. With "last day to expiring options" the 10:00 a.m. morning time period is often fraught with worries. That's just the way it is. Now let's focus in on this action just minutes before the 3:00 p.m. option expiracy deadline. Are you starting to understand the power of mid week option trading?

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 ...