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Finding A Trade To Make On Thursdays. "Walmart"

I don't like Thursday afternoons in short term option trading. A lot of things seem to happen on Thursdays like government reports coming out. I don't buy in the final seconds of trading, Call options on Boeing, Caterpillar or Eli Lilly or hoping for a Friday morning bounce. The hope today is to do find something good to trade and walk away by early afternoon. Welcome to Walmart. Options on Walmart are tight. Other stocks like McDonalds have options which trade sloppily. Let me show you what I mean by this. Good luck trying to get a fair fill if you're buying or selling. Now the Walmart side of the story on how options trade on it. Can you see the tighter bid and ask and the higher volume of trading? Step back for a second and consider this. The stock is only up $.26 cents in the first 45 minutes of trading. What does that tell us? It's waiting to decide which way it wants to go. Now this. These Call options went on to move up to $1.71 just before noon. There was the...
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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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