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Caterpillar And Tesla. These Are Scary Times To Be Trading Options.

We are witnessing huge intraday price movements on stocks like Caterpillar, Deere and to a lesser degree Tesla. Tesla sales are off in Europe as BYD continues to drop off boatloads of new vehicles into countries never before receptive to their offerings. Nvidia recent revenue earnings report helps to validate that teck stocks still have relevancy. "Market rotation" is now the new theme in spotlight as investors worry about where to park their money. Caterpillars and Deeres recent meteorological rises are under attact. Tesla has a price earnings ratio which is sky high. What's that all about? Silver stocks continue to rise and Bitcoin holders are not sleeping well at night. The price of gold has gone up and is not showing signs of coming off. People are now wondering if they should be lightning up on the weight of their jewerly boxes. Investors holding baskets of stocks are left wondering why. Secretly many wonder if they might wake up one morning to find everything down...

Ford Puts - sometimes they will surprise!

Back to an old friend. This blog is about why trading stock options on the stock "Ford Motors" can suprise. It's also about trading options I call "penny like options". In this instance I am trading options priced at twelve cents. For first time readers that really means $12.00. Now, a one day and five day chart on Ford. Can you see how volatile the stock is as of late?
Now the five day.
Now a look at it's trading in the morning today up until 11:30 a.m..
Now here is my trading experience on the day.
20 contracts in at 10:05 a.m. at $12.00 each and out at 10:38 a.m. for $18.00 each. That's six dollars profit a contract. It all happened very quickly. Are you able to look at the chart above and see how the chart dipped during that period of time? If you don't play options and want to don't start by making trades like this. Well then again some traders only only make trades like this. It's not uncommon to see a $300.00 trade quicky go to $3,000. It's Ford. Times are changing and Ford feels it most. This leads to yet another point. Being a trader is not everyones cup of tea. Ford options are just something that most people would not want to be thinking about. Pity. ***** Yet another example. This time on a Thursday with one hour and eight minutes to go in the trading session. Take a minute and try to figure out what is happening.
Ford is up .12 cents on the day. Think of what would happen if it ever gave up this gain by the end of the day or on tomorrow's opening. Welcome to trading Ford options. *** Here they are seven minutes into the Friday morning trading session. Yes there was a profit to be made.

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