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Tesla Calls On A Tuesday That Expire the Next Day

Would you play one day "out-of-the money" options on a series of Calls that are already down 75% on the day and expire the next day? Seems kind of stupid right? I am talking about Tesla. Tesla trades on the Nasdaq which is taking a beating. Why buy in here at this particular period of time when the support levels on it are still few dollars lower? Why buy Calls with only 1.5 trading days life left in them? Well at 1:00 p.m. the afternoon portion of the market is about to begin and these options are trading at their lows of the day. "One-day-option-traders" have to think in terms of what might happen in the next two hours or so. If a rebound happens in the next two hours just get in and out. These types of option traders take risk on chart patterns that have yet to make reversals. It's can be a lonely and expensive game to play and if the desired results do not pay off one must quickly revert to different strategies. How the closing chart looks today will hop...
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Deere and Company - One Of The Most Dangerous Series Of Call and Put Options to Play When There Is Only Hours To Go.

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If you have winnings from a previous trade sometimes you value that money differently. It's difficult to explain why but there are scholars out there who have written books on this very topic. It's like play money or free money that you can now use to make the wildest option trades you can think of. It's money you feel you can risk. It's like being a kid in a candy store with money in your pocket. Everything looks good.There are two stocks that I sometimes follow, Dominos Pizza and John Deere. Both have options available to trade on them however the Call and Put options on the first one, Dominos are near impossible to trade. Why? Well on a Friday morning with options expiring that day on it, how do you predict which direction the stock on the world's largest pizza company is going to go? The answer is you can't. The company is painfully aware that one news release about the price of cheese going up or problems with their ordering apps could send their stock int...
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