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McDonald's. It's Difficult To Fight Strong Stocks.

Here is McDonalds five day chart at the close on Wednesday. Now here is it's three month chart. Now consider this. In two days the stock is up about twelve dollars. I often talk about Wednesdays being the one day in the week the markets can do reverals. Today the DJIA was up over four hundred points and McDonalds was down 60 cents. It dipped on the opening and came back a bit and then selling pressure came into the stock again on the closing. I personally hate McDonald's food. The internet has tens of Youtube videos saying their fries are poisonous. Yet I get it. But think about this. Whenever a new residential subdivision goes in anywhere in North America there is room for another one of their restaurants to go in. They just pop up and everyone knows what they are. Here now is a snippet I posted in a past McDonald's blog. After a lackluster trading session today McDonald's could drop in the next two days or at least on a Thursday afternoon sell off. Yet nothing m...

A Perfect Storm - McDonalds

Here is McDonalds one day trading chart on Friday March 15th. The DJI was down 190 points on the day.
That's nothing crazy unusual right? Yet there was news last week of a technical glitch.
On Friday morning things seemed to be normal until some sellers decided it was time to get out. Watch how these "out-of-the-money" Puts sold off down to $.02 ($2.00 a contract) in very early morning trading.
Some traders would have got very lucky. Friday mornings are the only time of the week option trading like this can happen.

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