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McDonald's. It's Difficult To Fight Strong Stocks.

Here is McDonalds five day chart at the close on Wednesday. Now here is it's three month chart. Now consider this. In two days the stock is up about twelve dollars. I often talk about Wednesdays being the one day in the week the markets can do reverals. Today the DJIA was up over four hundred points and McDonalds was down 60 cents. It dipped on the opening and came back a bit and then selling pressure came into the stock again on the closing. I personally hate McDonald's food. The internet has tens of Youtube videos saying their fries are poisonous. Yet I get it. But think about this. Whenever a new residential subdivision goes in anywhere in North America there is room for another one of their restaurants to go in. They just pop up and everyone knows what they are. Here now is a snippet I posted in a past McDonald's blog. After a lackluster trading session today McDonald's could drop in the next two days or at least on a Thursday afternoon sell off. Yet nothing m...

Looking At One Week Price Swings !

This is a good market for price swings. Look at Boeing last week.
Boeing was up $12.63 on the week.Then there is Eli Lilly. It was up $28.44 last week.
The strange part is falling NYSE stocks outnumbered rising ones, 3-to-2. It is stated that the May job growth seemed to rule out a "near-term" rate cut. Look at the stock McDonalds. It was down $2.68 on the week. What a wild chart.
At the start of the year it was running up nicely on the theme they were adding new restaurants in the growing suburbs of every city in North America. Most recently the theme is that people can't afford to eat there. When sentiment changes looking for a rebound is never an exacting science. Look at Ford. It was up two cents last week and it was announced that sales last month were up 7%. If they are up again next month the stock might start to get noticed.
Had you purchased the 12 series Calls on Wednesday that expired that Friday you would have done well. Look at Nio. It was the third most activity traded stock on the NYSE last week. Ford was the fifth most activity traded stock on the same exchange. Nio often makes the top five list. Last week it dropped $.56 cents. That's a big drop on a stock in this price range.
It could come back up this week. Now look at First Solar. Look at it's one day chart last Friday!
Imagine catching Friday's one day Call options? Now look at it's one week chart. The stock was down $4.42 on the week.
On the wilder side,the "Blink" $3.00 series of Calls that expire this Friday closed last Friday at $.17. Playing options on stocks in this price range is a real crap shoot. See my June 4th blog I wrote about Chargepoint).
Here is it's first option trade of the week.
A 1:45p.m. same day update. The Ford 12 series of Calls has doubled.
Eli Lilly is up $9.61.
First Solar is up $14.41.
All during a period of time when the DJIA is only up 8 points so far on this day! *** Look at how the Blink Calls went on to gain over 50% in one day.

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