A Real Look At Ford On The Opening Yesterday.
The stock opened down and jumped at 9:31 a.m. Look at this chart. In our last blog I followed the trading pattern of it's Calls all day. Had you placed a premarket, "at-market" ticket on the 12 series of Calls your guarented fill on the opening would have reflected the drop in the stocks price in the first few seconds of the opening. Somewhere between 9:30:00 a.m. and 9:30:59 a.m. the 12 series of Calls dropped in price to $.57. Then in the first five minutes of trading they rebounded to a high on the day of $.76. "At-market", "premarket" tickets in this instance would have guaranteed that you would be part of this action. The flip side of this logic is that there were no guarentees that the stock was going to go up. The use of "at-market" tickets on stocks in this price range with four days of trading life left in them should be included in your bag of tricks. Scarier is the use of this type of order on "last-day-to-expiring" opti...