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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 ...

Roku Again

And why option trading on Monday's with one week Calls sometimes work. Roku once again. It's rebounding off last's weeks earnings report. I talked about that in a previous blog. Look at this mornings happenings.
Might it be time for a slight jump? Here are the 58 series of Calls in the late morning at 11:38 a.m.
Why are these Calls interesting? There is wiggle room to go back up to where it was closer to the opening. What's next? This.
Now the chart.
Notice how little trading there was in these options after the 1:00 p.m. mark. On ten contracts this would be a tidy trade. **** Here is how they closed the day.
**** Now a look at the furthering strength the following morning.
******* It's easy to be an arm chair follower of all this action. Notice this series of Call options stayed strong for the entire previous afternoon? That sometimes makes it a good bet that they will open stronger on the following opening. Yet not always.

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