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If a Stock Drops 10% In One Day Can You Play It For A Two day Rebound?

Here it is. Here are the 240 series of Calls that expire in two days. $565.00 U.S. is a lot of money to shell out as an experiment. Now this. The next days action. Half of this options life has now disappeared. Now a look at its five day chart which tells a different story. I don't like chart charts that look like they are languishing sideways. This one does. Analysis explained this drop away under the guise of "macro shift's" happening within the industry, not company specific reasons. With just one trading day left I would get out. Hanging in is to big a gamble. Wednesday's index loss was almost 500 points and today's action was an across the board market rebound. Get out and start tomorrow with a clear head. Read my previous blog on Pfizer options which also traded during the same time period.

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 ...