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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...

Caterpillar and Deere Having A Good Week.

First Caterpillar going into Friday August 16th, a five day chart.
Now Deere.
Imagine having options and catching one of these moves? Tesla and Boeing were also on fire this week. There was talk of unemployment numbers not meaning to much and talk of interest rate declines. Get in and get out when the times are good. The markets can change on a dime. I talked this week about Telsa Calls and said to get out prematurely and the same with Boeing Calls. But wait, there will always be more trading opportunities. That plus the markets did nothing on Friday after this monstrous run. There was no point in wasting your time watching your lists of favorite stocks after everything rallied so strongly on Monday to Thursday. Now the five day and one day chart on Deere.
Who would be buying Deere stock on Friday after it had a massive rally the previous day? I don't know. Now look at how these three series of Puts traded on Friday. The only reason I am showing them is to point out how option traders were smart enough to stay away from them. You would think that after such a big rally on the week more option players would have jumped in on the Thursday's close to purchase "near-to-the money" Puts, looking for a five or seven dollar selloff. Apparently not. Yet the stock did sputter on Friday's opening which would have presented an opportunity to squeak out a small but profitable Put trade.
Learning where and when to pick your battles is a big part option trading. ( The S&P500 index gained 3.9% this past week, marking its best week of the year, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 5.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 2.9%.) This was one of the best weeks this year to be playing the upside.

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