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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 ...

Ford and Nio Power Up Again

Look at the opening on Ford. What a stock to be focusing on over the last week. Call optons that consistently double in price in a matter of one or two days of trading. The party will not go on forever but what a ride.
This mornings upward move.
If you were trading Boeing or Caterpillar options you would be looking for two or three dollar swings. With stocks like Ford and Nio these recent swings are huge on a precentage basis. That is the power of playing options on stocks in this price range. In yesterdays blog I mentioned Nio. It had news.
Look at how the stock jumped again on the opening. That is two days in a row.
Is this not intended to be a blog about learning to trade like a pro. There is a high risk involved in trying so guess daily price swings on low priced stocks like this. In some ways what we are talking about is mispricings in the market. Barons is constantly talking about how Ford may be underpriced given this shift to going electric. This will be a multi year story. Option traders are known to chase what we can call the action and next week both of these stocks may be out-of-fashion. It will be interesting to watch how Ford closes out the week.

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