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There is a little stock that has recently started to gain an inordinate amount of attention. It trades millions of shares per day and I recently started blogging about it. It's price changes on a daily basis can be dramatic. Here once again are it's details. Now it's thirty day and five day chart. Option players playing one week options on this stock are getting wild rides. Look at this, today's one day chart. Now look at today's Puts. It's one day, six series of Puts on it traded at a low of $.03 cents in the morning and then shot up in the afternoon. $.35 cents was the high. Is there any point in taking this stock seriously and tracking how it's options are trading? Usually I would say not really however when I see millions of shares trading everyday I know that millions of Americans who can trade commission free can glue themselves to their computer screens and play like these these options all day long enjoying these two and three and ten cent price...

Rivian and V.W. Partnership News and Trading Rivian Call Options Between 3:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. On The Day Of That News

There was fresh news that we will tell you about shortly and this is how the 14.5 series of Calls on Rivian were trading at 3:11 p.m. today, a Wednesday. This is mid week news and these particular Calls will be expiring in two trading sessions. Why try to play something that short term when you are late to this party? Only insiders selling would be profiting on this news. Unfortunately that's just the way the system works.
Now this. You decide. I think it has the legs to go higher.
Now the news which caused the stock to jump.
Notice that Rivian cracked the $16.00 range in it's early morning trading only then to sell off to the $14.36 range at 3::11 p.m. Traders jumping into this morning frenzy using short term Call options as a vehicle would have of overpaid and are stuck now in a dangerous situation. This no longer is a good short term story. Friday is only two days away. Yet there is a chance that the last hour of today's trading might see a further upside? Why? It has to do with the fact that the volume of trading during the last thirty minutes of an given trading session spikes upwards. As evidence, look at these trading volume numbers compilled for a one week period of time, as provided for by a recent Barron's magazine. Read these numbers. 9:30-10:00 a.m. 87,262, 10:00-10:30 a.m. 32,506 ,10:30-11:00 a.m., 26,671,11:00-11:30.a.m. 25,731, 11:30-12:00 p.m. 24,464, 12:00-12:30 p.m. 21,204,09 12:30 p.m.-1:00 p.m.20,266, 1:00-1:30 p.m. 20,434, 1:30-2:00 p.m. 19,858, 2:00-2:30 p.m. 20,880, 2:30-3:00 p.m. 23,397, 3:00-3:30 p.m.27,189, and then watch the last half hour of trading explode in trading volumes! The 3:30-4:00 p.m. trading volume number is 455,043. What an increase in trading volumes. Now back to Rivian and more specifically the 14.5 series of Calls that traded upwards on the day. Is there a chance the stock could go up in it's last forty five minutes of trading? Here now is how they closed out the day.
All of this is to point out the power of "end-of-the-day" option trading. Here is it's one day closing chart. The Call options in the last 49 minutes of trading jumped from $.60 to $.83 cents. On ten contracts that could be a trade.
Now a look at Thursday's opening. The stock is losing steam and anything could happen to it. Holding onto it after the close on Wednesday would have being a dangerous adventure.
Now Thursday's action. A quick selloff on the opening and then a slight comeback as time progressed.
It's going to take a jump tomorrow to save these Calls. Now Friday's action.
Look at the bounce on the opening.
Yes there was a Friday morning bounce which rewarded all of the Thursday option players who bought in! BOTTOM LINE. Wednesday, the day of the news release was not the day to be buying Rivian Calls. Thursday was the day to get in and Friday morning was the time to get out. The next time a positive event like this happens mid week to a stock be cautious about playing short term options on it.

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