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Pfizer - Five Day Options Starting On A Monday Morning.

Monday December 29th The DJIA dropped on the opening. Not a massive drop, just like 250 points. So I am looking at Pfizer again, this time to the upside. It's only down $.07. The option volume is healthy which is a good thing. If the markets rebound these options will be super sensitive to a rebound. It's only Monday and these options have all week. By waiting until the afternoon hopefully morning jitters are behind us. Now this, a look at it's five day chart. Charts are important. Now a 2:05 p.m. update. First it's current one day chart and another market update. The markets are still struggling. Now this at 2:09 p.m. Now it's final Monday closing reading. The markets never rebounded. So what next? Pfizer the following morning. These Call options are now "out-of-the-money" and are super sensitive to the stock's lastest two cent drop. Here is it's chart. The open interest in the Puts is now double what it is in the Calls. The nice things ...

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...