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Tesla And Wondering About One Day Options. Is This A Crazy Topic? You Decide But Hear Me Out First.

Tommorrow is Friday and I don't have time to babysit these options all day. You might find yourself in the same situation. Look at it's one day chart today. Now here is how one of it's Call option series were trading in the afternoon two days ago. Here is how this same series of Calls closed today, a Thursday. One of the things this tells us is that these options dropped in price by one half since 11:00 a.m. this morning. At one point in time they actually dropped down more than that before they started to crawl back up again. So it's a flip a coin situation right? Well not really. My best experieces trading Tesla options are in playing it's last day "at-the-money" or slightly "out-of-the-money" Call options on Friday starting around 1:30 p.m. and getting out around 3:00 p.m. It helps if the stock keeps rising all day like it sometimes does. Trying to outguess this stock on a Thursday evening is a waste of time. Waiting for the stock to go up ...
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Disappointment on The Opening - Caterpillar Earnings Report

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Caterpillar's earnings report. What I see is 4th quarter sales up 23%. Strong 4th quarter earnings of $3.71 per share.That's a solid number. Just think, the supply chain issue isn't being used as a mistake. Now look at the the opening options market. The stock is down on the news. Management made a few remarks about near term headwinds. They do that sometimes to temper growth expectations. These two quotes are the 205 Call series which expire today. One is at 9:44 a.m. and one is at 10:03 a.m.. They would be very dangerous to consider purchasing since its very unlikely that they could ever shake off this downward spike so early in the morning. So now what? It's at this time in the morning when the decision to reacte to this bad news gets tricky. The stock is down like ten dollars and the DJI is having a good day. There is a strong tempation to jump in on the upside hoping for a quick reversal. That's one of the things that makes option trading so difficult. One...
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