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What does the word disconnect mean? As a verb it means "to sever or interrupt the connection of or between; detach". Option trading - one day options - is a disconnect from the world. What happens to slightly "out-of-the-money" Call options on Costco when the stock shoot up thirty dollars on the day? I will show you what happened on Friday to Costco Calls and the options on a few other stocks I frequently watch. What a disconnect from the real world. But before that a look at how the indexes traded. 1) Costco. It's five day chart and a look at how three of it's option series moved upwards in one day. You may not know how to read these printouts but try to read the highs and lows on these option pricings. One printout shows an "at-the-money" option which means you are buying a contract on the stock, good for one day only at a locked in price equal to (or very close to) what the stock is currently trading at. The other two contracts shown are ...

Boeing Tanks On Bad Earning Reports

Their third quarter profit came out today.
The stock tanked. Then their soldiers quickly marched up and offered support. Here is what they said.
The company doesn't appear to be worried about competition but there is repeated mention of supply chain issues. Here is how the stock traded on the day. This is a five day chart so only really focus on it's last day of trading.
I think Boeing will be able to shake off a little of this bad news in the next day or two. I bought one Call option at $3.28 at 3.08 p.m.
Yet then again with Boeing anything can happen. Now the following day, a Thursday. I bought seven days of trading time but I picked a price I wanted and got out in the premarket at 8:54 a.m. See the time of the fill on the ticket below. I picked my price and it turned out to be the price this series of Calls opened at. I got out at $6.25. I saw Caterpillar up like ten dollars in preopening markets so I knew it was going to be a strong opening.
Here is how the stock ended up trading on the day. I could have hung on a little bit longer and made a bit more but in option trading you learn that there is no looking back in your rear view mirror.*** It's Sunday Oct 30th. The week is now over. Here is an updated five day chart and here once again is that sell ticket which this time shows what those options are worth at the end of the week.
Buying Call options with a week or so to go seems to be the way to go. The DJI is headed for it's best month since 1976.

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