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Tesla And The Play Of The Week - An Easy Read.

Here is Telsa's five day chart. Can you see how it spiked to the upside on Friday morning before it tanked? Can you see how as the day progressed it dipped down to the support level of the $210.00 range? Here is its one day chart. Now this. Lucky in all this action are all those individuals who purchased one day Puts on Telsa in the first few minutes of trading. Look at how these Puts reacted. The lows of the day happened in the first few minutes of trading. Look at the pecentage gains. In the last example a $1.00 option went to $190.00 in one day. Catching one trade like this could make up for twenty bad trades. What's all this talk of Ai trading? Moves like this could blow up the exchanges if thousand of trading platforms could recognize this could happen. This was one of the best option trading opportunities of the decade.
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Caterpillar. A Big Bounce.

Both Caterpillar and Boeing can jump four dollars in one day, often on no news. They each did last week on differing days. Look at these two charts which show this morning's opening and tell me what you think. My question is if you're an option trader would an opening move downwards like this excite you? Is it premature to look at playing Call options on the upside?.
Interesting charts right? It's like a bomb went off and know one know's why. Do you open a trade right now or wait for something better? They are both ugly stock charts and their both billion dollar companies. If you go the wrong way you will quickly lose money and time values will eat you away. I would say most option players would do something while keeping in mind that the bottom may not be here yet. Let's continue this story after we see what happens tomorrow.
Ok, so here is the next morning. The pendulum has swung in the opposite direction on the opening.
Inconsequential trades of no value you might say. This is a teaching website. I played it in a way to catch the leverage by purchasing extremely "out of the money" Calls on Caterpillar (the 202.50 Calls that expire this Friday). If you look at a five day chart on it you might say that is a ridiculous thing to do because it would take a miracle for the stock to ever rally to such a level. Maybe, maybe not, That's not the point. What I know is that "out-of-the money" Call options with four days to go before they expire will get a good kick of a disproportionate size if the underlying stock was to suddenly move up two or three dollars. The premarkets were strong and I wanted to avoid these strong premarkets possibly disappearing in the last hour prior to the opening 9:30 a.m opening. That sometimes happens. My sell ticket got filled at 8:26 a.m.. I picked the .50 selling price because in the premarket world of trading there are no bids and asks. That's a good story for another day.
I played Caterpillar. Could I have made more if I got out later? Maybe. Maybe not. In this kind of a situation it doesn't really matter. I just wanted to catch the full impact of a strong opening market. The point of this blog is to show how "out-of-the-money" low priced options with days to go can be an intricate part of option trading after a day which had a strong selloff. ++++ A closing note. Here is the full day's trading activity in the Cat 202.50 Calls. My exit price was the right number.
So what ended up happening on the week after this early fall off a cliff start? Well here is the one week charts on both Boeing and Catipillar. Call it a Santas Claus rally.
Now rememeber the Cat 202.50 Calls I bought at thirty-three dollars a contact and sold out happily at fifty dollars a contract? Here is how they closed out the week.
The same eight contracts I purchased at thirty three dollars each ended up closing the week at $415.00 dollars each a contract. That's over a $3,000 difference. Ouch. Happy holidays.

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