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What does the word disconnect mean? As a verb it means "to sever or interrupt the connection of or between; detach". Option trading - one day options - is a disconnect from the world. What happens to slightly "out-of-the-money" Call options on Costco when the stock shoot up thirty dollars on the day? I will show you what happened on Friday to Costco Calls and the options on a few other stocks I frequently watch. What a disconnect from the real world. But before that a look at how the indexes traded. 1) Costco. It's five day chart and a look at how three of it's option series moved upwards in one day. You may not know how to read these printouts but try to read the highs and lows on these option pricings. One printout shows an "at-the-money" option which means you are buying a contract on the stock, good for one day only at a locked in price equal to (or very close to) what the stock is currently trading at. The other two contracts shown are ...
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FFIE "Faraday Future Intelligent Electric"

 This is a strange story. The stock Faraday Future sank on Wednesday by about 17% after recently doing a  80-1 reverse stock split. Then the stock went down about half-price again the day after. This time they announced that they would be issuing additional shares, for about an amount of 90 million dollars. If you have an EV company to run, that's not very much money. To add to the confusion a share buyback program to help support the stock's price was recently announced. You can't have it both ways. You can't be issuing new stock and buying it back at the same time. Money was recently wasted on that activity. Short-selling activity has plagued this company. Short sellers so far have won. When you have already three billion into the company and have only produced three vehicles there is a problem.





But wait, if you don't know the story it's a California-based company that

has just cranked out a few ( once again only three) high-end EVs and sold them to celebrities. That's not much of a game plan. It's also a company valiantly fending off critics who have watched this company struggle for so long.

When a stock falls into this price range it is dangerous and stands a very good chance of going into receivership. Google it and watch it yourself. It will be interesting to see how it goes. 

When things are dropping this fast it's best to stay away. 







They do make a cool-looking car but maybe being cool-looking is not enough. You can't keep going back to the well asking for more money. The stock is down over 97% in the last year.  Have you ever witnessed a stock dropping that much in price and then surviving? Probably not. Here is one of their electric vehicle models. They look like they will sell. Who knows?  Another car company I have blogged about is Polestar. Their stock has struggled. Investors are currently cautious on so many of these companies.   If you read about EV companies in China you will find out that there is a large number of EV makers in that country. Like over 80 different companies churning them out.  Maybe it's best just to stick with Telsa.



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