Featured

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 ...

July Movement - One Week Action - Catching One Of These Moves And Staying With It

Quickly check out these six different five day charts amd look for a common theme.
Talk about a game of snakes and ladders! Was there a theme to the price movements of most of these stocks? Yes, with most of these stocks, the directional moves that happened on Thursday continued on over into Friday. Looking for one day reversals on stocks on Thurday afternoons and also going into Friday would have being a mistake. We are enjoying strong markets and this is the outcome of strong markets.These are not normal times.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Living on Kraft Dinner?

The Little Engine That Could

A Fireside Chat - One Year Options and Thirty Day Options. Which is Better?