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Looking For Something To Buy On A Tuesday Afternoon?

How about one of these two situations. First Nvidia. The markets are strong and Nvidia was up smartly on the previous day. These Calls expire tomorrow and are over one dollar "out-of-the-money" so they are high risk. That plus Tuesdays going into a Wednesday in short term option trading is not as good as Friday going into Monday situations. See my recent blog about Tesla Calls going into the opening markets yesterday morning which was a Monday. Might not Exxon suprise. You can see the price of oil is down today but could it stop falling? Exxon is off in price a chunk and the Calls offered a good buying opportunity this morning.. Moves downwards this much in a one day time period are somewhat rare. Let's see what happens. That leads us to a new topic. Overtrading. I like Fridays for it's one day options and for it's late in the day look at it's "next-week-out-options" which might at this point in time be somewhat mispriced. Resets in pricings can s...

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 ...