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A Random Walk In The Park On A Monday Morning. A Caution. Monday Mornings Are Often Not An Option Players Best Friend

Let's start with this. It's now 10:26 a.m. A bet on Caterpillar rebounding by the end of the week. There are no takers. Why have to watch the screen for the next four days in agony waiting for a rebound which if happens is just a "break even trade"? But Wait. I made a mistake. The market is actually now down 668 points. What else can we look at? Interactive Brokers. These kind of stocks always do poorly on days with the threat of margin calls. Yet there is something interesting about the printout I am about to show. It is that these options are "one-month-out" Calls. These longer term options trade differently than short term options. (these options trade in one month intervals). If the stock we are following stops it's freefall the value of the options will nudge up ten, fifteen or twenty percent. A seven dollar option Call might creep back up to $8.00 or $9.00 at which time it could be sold. In contrast with a five day option a slight reversal in ...

Tesla. One Day Calls On A Day the DJI Jumped Over Four Hundred Points On A Friday

Call it window dressing. It was the last day of the first quarter of the year. I forgot how that works. Institutions sometime collectively bid up the stocks that they are invested in a last minute attempt to dust upwards their quarterly performances. Look at the one day Telsa Calls. They jumped a touch on the opening. Even after they jumped on the opening it wasn't to late to get in.
Then what?
At 9:54 a.m. the 200.00 series of Telsa Calls were trading at $1.14 per contract. Over seventy thousand contracts had traded. Now look at the chart of how Telsa traded on the entire day. It kept going up.
Now guess what they closed at and look at the increase in the volume traded.
How good is your memory? Use this tip every March 31th going forward. It might make you a couple of thousand dollars. Three final comments. 1)
Tesla for now is the king of building electric vehicles. How can the small guys make money in this new industry? It's hard. 2) You can't randomly expect to purchase random Call options on Tesla every Friday and expect to make money everytime. Here is a trade I made a week ago on Tesla trying this same strategy and I lost.
3) Read the second blog I ever posted on this site back on Sept 23nd 2019. It was about trading Tesla three different times on a Friday as it blasted upwards in price. Tesla Calls on a Friday should rank as being about a number "7" on a current options players list of top ten strategies. 4)****** An April 15th update. I want to mention one this that makes trading on Telsa so unique. It has to do with the bids and asks.
There is only a three cent spread between the bid and ask. That makes getting in and out so much easlier.

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