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Walmart Again

On Monday I did a blog on buying this week's Call options on Walmart. Today is now Thursday and there was a big crash in the markets yesterday. For example, Tesla had an insane selloff. Here is what happened to it. Today it is slightly rebounding as are so many other stocks. Thursdays however as oftened mentioned are not a good time to be purchasing one day options on stocks that expire the next day. So how is any of this revelant to Walmart's trading today? Well, there was a whole bunch other stocks that got knocked yesterday that might now rebound back up again together. Look at the chart below of Walmart and see how it was off a couple of dollars yesterday. Could you buy in now and get out later in the day? Fantasy thinking, one might say. Could it sneak up even one dollar? Now this. The stock mid morning is now merely trading sideways. Now look at this, the 93 series of Calls. (On Monday we were looking at the 94 series of Calls). At 10:22 a.m. the stock is up six cents...
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Boeing Is A Strange Animal

Last week I got caught in the mud following Boeing all week. It basically went sideways and ended up being the 17th most activity traded stock on the NYSE "Most Active List" by dollar volume and up .27 cents on the week. The Dow rose only 3 points on the week. Here now is how the Boeing 170 Call options started this week, twenty minutes into the trading action.
Here now on Wednesday April 24th is a look at it's most recent five day chart.
So here is the thing. The 170 Calls closed Tuesday (yesterday) at $4.75 with the "open interest" numbers going up.
Yes the stock has swings but who wants to shell out that much money for an "out-of-the-money" Call option with only three days trading life left in them? Compare this to my last blog on Lowe's where the chart screamed the stock was going up. I am including that chart again. Yesterday as shown in the chart the stock went up and the option series I illustrated doubled in one day.
Now this. Why are the Call premiums so expensive? Well the answer is that Boeing has an earnings report coming out before the markets open this morning. Call option players were paying a touch of a premium for the right to be participating in this action. My initial comments about being frustrated with the high cost of these options totally ignored this reality. Now this report.
Slowing down production to improve quality. That's a damage control statement which helps to pacify the relentless criticism they have had to contend with as of late. All that said, here is how the Call options are trading shortly after the opening today.
It will be interesting to observe at the end of the day if the "open interest" numbers subside. To be continued. Now here they are as of 11:25 a.m.
Now look at the end of the day chart and how the markets closed.
Now look at how the 170 Calls closed the day.
$4.75 to $8.05 to $.38 cents. What to make of all this? Let's back up for a second. Last week I posted a blog on April 15th which followed the 170 Boeing Calls for the week. During that week the 170 Calls closed at $2.70 on Monday, $2.80 on Tuesday, $1.95 on Wednesday, $1.45 on Thursday and $.10 cents on Friday with Boeing closing the week at $169.82 on Friday. So much for the strategy of purchasing Call options which expire slightly in advance of earning releases. Why did Boeing rally on the opening today? Pent up optimism gone array? Store this blog away somewhere in your mind. Tomorrow Caterpillar has their quarterly earning report coming out.The next morning. Caterpillar got smashed,see my next blog. Boeing went down again in sympathy.

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