Posts

Showing posts from April, 2023

Featured

Part Two Of McDonald's Having An Upward Run

Nobody knows whats going to happen tomorrow. Let's jump forward. $1.64 or $164.00 dollars plus commissions will buy you one "310" series of Puts. In the first twelve minutes of trading only one contract traded. That just shows you how dangerous these option contracts can be. We are not talking about a one day move at this point in time. For option traders holding positions like this which were bought for quick flips an hour of watching the stock becomes a guessing game. Here it is now about seven minutes later. Note this, the pain continues? What's the DJIA doing? This becomes the path you are now on and it's to early to think about it becoming a dead end. If you still like the situation then yes you should buy more if you can afford to lose. Perhaps you made a big score on Disney Calls on the previous day. I talked about that. Now this at 11:09 a.m. Still the same number of contracts traded. Hold these thoughts. Part three of this blog will tell you wha...

A Blogging Website About Caterpillar

Image
Ok. I am guilty of falling asleep at the switch. Caterpillar had great earning report this morning and the stock tanked on the opening. Here is it's five and one day chart. Now the highlights of the report. So now what do I want to show. How the different series of Call options traded. Notice the volumes in the 200 and 202.50 Calls. Next to no volume. Notice the rewards on the higher priced "out-of-the-money" Calls. Big rewards. In the ninety minutes of trading this morning the stock was off slightly. What an opportunity missed!