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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 ...

All Eyes Are On The Fed

Option traders with multiple screens open will sometimes be able to detect unusual events about to happen that manifest into sure thing trading opportunites. It happened one day this week when Chairman Jerome Powell made some forward looking statements. Here is what happened. Watch as a multitude of widely traded stocks dived in the last forty five minutes of trading.
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It's difficult to capitalize on events like this you might say. Yes it is. My point is however gifts to short term option players do sometimes happen.

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