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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 ...

Earnings on Elli Lilly.

They were great. Did you miss playing them? Was it a bet to rich to make? There was however an opportunity to profit on it's downside shortly thereafter. Let's begin.
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Nice chart, right? Could you have bought the Calls on the closing the day before? Here is how they closed the day before. They closed at $19.31. Anything above $760.00 would be pure profits. The stock went up on the opening to $795.50.
But wait. What goes up must come down. Here are the
790 Puts at 10:01 a.m. That was very close to the top of the days trading range. I was watching them. They were at 10.85. The stock at that time was $794.43. If your a short term trader here how things were different at 12:42 p.m.
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The Puts had a healty move. To be continued.

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