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Could Boeing Surprise This Week?

It's beaten up. Here is it's five and thirty day charts. Boeing is a company which gets rattled by a barrage of events and gets to bask in the continuous good news of unexpected new orders. The backlogs continue to grow infinitely large. Will Boeing benefit from good news this week? That's the appeal of this series of Calls. Yet before we get cozy and jump into this weeks action let me show you one day of last's weeks trading action. Here is the closing price last Wednesday on it's 220 series of Calls. At that point in time they still had two trading days life left in them. They then ended up on Friday expiring worthless. That's a sobering thought. You can confirm what I am talking about on it's above five day chart. Playing options on this stock is not a walk in the park. Now let us look at this weeks 217.50 and 220 series of Calls starting with the 220 series which are further "out-of-the-money" and more of a gamble. They both offer five days ...
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Netflix and the Future Value of Income Streams

Netflix had news.
On the release of this information the stock jumped and here is where it gets really crazy with "out-of-the-money" Call options that expire in two days. Call it insane. What I am about to show are random samplings of this action.
For years now articles have being written on the Netflix business model and what bothered market pundents was how they were losing money on customers giving away their access codes to other users. Other questions. Do upticks like this trigger automated tracking systems set off alarms that catch jumps like this within seconds of these meteoric liftoffs? Do C.E.O's tell their son-in-laws of this impeding action. Did the fellow driving the Porche 911 in front of you buy it with the profits made from acting on insider news? Can you buy Disney or Roku tomorrow and catch similiar gains? In two recent blogs this week I talked about Boeing Calls jumped in price on Biden news about how he was handling one days news on the debt crisis and how Harley Davidson had great earning reports only to watch the stocks price drop on spurious comments about potential headwinds ahead. Were such comments warranted? The markets are full of trickery. Things to think about when you are on the bus in the morning beating yourself up because you wasted money on a Starbuck coffee. Look, option trading isn't for everyone but I am hoping that little blogs like this will raise eyebrows.

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