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What Do I See Here? It's Disney In Nose Bleeding Territory.

First it's five day chart. There was news this morning which might be attributable to this morning's jump in price. Ai news should always be taken with a grain of salt as it doesn't add to the bottom line profits overnight. The markets jumped today big time. Do markets sometimes take a pause after big jumps like this? That's the question and that's why I am attracted to it's one day Puts today just prior to the closing bell. A fifty cent selloff in tomorrow's premarket or shortly after would cause these Puts to jump by 50%. A double in price on the Puts would take a bigger move down than fifty cents. Might the stock give back one half of what it gained today? Here is how it is trading in the aftermarkets on Thursday. One concern is the light open interest numbers. This can make for larger than usual spreads between the "bid and ask". Let's hope it's a get-out-quickly situation however there is still lots of trading life left in these P...

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 ...