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A Random Walk In The Park On A Monday Morning. A Caution. Monday Mornings Are Often Not An Option Players Best Friend

Let's start with this. It's now 10:26 a.m. A bet on Caterpillar rebounding by the end of the week. There are no takers. Why have to watch the screen for the next four days in agony waiting for a rebound which if happens is just a "break even trade"? But Wait. I made a mistake. The market is actually now down 668 points. What else can we look at? Interactive Brokers. These kind of stocks always do poorly on days with the threat of margin calls. Yet there is something interesting about the printout I am about to show. It is that these options are "one-month-out" Calls. These longer term options trade differently than short term options. (these options trade in one month intervals). If the stock we are following stops it's freefall the value of the options will nudge up ten, fifteen or twenty percent. A seven dollar option Call might creep back up to $8.00 or $9.00 at which time it could be sold. In contrast with a five day option a slight reversal in ...

A Note Of Interest On Day One and Two of The New Year 2022

If you turned on your computer Monday morning, the first day of the trading in 2022 sometime between 9:30 a.m. and noon you would have witnessed the markets were rocking. I watched Tesla and Apple and others. Everything was on a terror. Look at some of this action.
So what's next? Well on Tuesday the markets were rocking again. Look at the action in Caterpillar and Boeing.
Then there is Ford. All of the car makers are going electric.
What is the point of this blog? Well on the last on the last trading day of 2022 this year think up and not down.

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