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Five Day Swings. A Monday Morning Story About Option Playing

So we all woke up Monday morning to yet another selloff. Investors are pissed. Margin calls are going out. If your trying to save for a downpayment for a new house and you have money in the markets it's a double whammy. Is there any relevancy in trying to outguess the markets at this point in time using options as a trading vehicle? Not really. When Russia invaded Ukraine the markets went array for months. We are witnessing the same thing happening now. It's nonsensical to be buying Puts on the closing on a Friday afternoon hoping for Trump to stir up the pot over the weekend yet that's what it seems take to create a winning trade. Everything is screwed up. Market volatility causes option premiums to be priced in a way to disuade traders from entering into postitions. Here is a case in point. Carvana dropped twenty dollars last week. Just below you can see it's chart. Having said all of this the remainer of this blog castes a shadow on everything I have just said. Pleas...
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Telsa and Ford

A recent blog talked about playing options on Ford. Elon Musk made some comments on how he plans to run his business by dropping prices ramping up production and pushing harder for self driving vehicles. Worry ensues.
Image buying some random Telsa or Ford Puts a few days ago. When Musk speaks get ready for some action.

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