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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...

Why Not To Focus On Nvidia?

An earnings report is coming out this week. What a wild run it has had. So many traders are watching it. Here is it's 30 day chart.
It's Monday morning on August 26th and here is how this weeks "out-of-the-money" 130 series of calls are trading. Over 31,000 contracts traded in the first 25 minutes. This is only one of many series.
Now here is it's five day chart.
Imagine catching it last Thursday when it dropped ove six dollars with options that expired the next day or catching it last Friday on one day options rebounding four or five dollars? That's where the real action was. Waiting now for the release of it's second-quarter earnings report after the markets close on Wednesday, August 28th is a fools game. Now a parapraph on AMC Entertainment. I don't really follow this stock however I was watching the five series of options trade trade on it last Thursday and Friday when the stock waivered around the $5.00 mark. What a seesaw. Look at how this weeks expiring five series of Calls jumped on the opening today. What's that all about?
Look at how high the Call options popped just after the opening. These same Call options closed at $.12 on Friday.
My point is that there is a sweet spot for options with a five dollar striking price. It is on Monday mornings with options that expire at the end of the week if the stock you are watching is already trading at $5.00. Don't ask me why it happens but it sometimes does. One final thought. With interest rates set to decline one beneficiary should be solar stocks. I read about is relationship frequently. Why not be in options on solar power stocks just before the markets close on a Friday afternoon?
This particular option series doubled in price from it's Friday close in the first sixteen minutes of trading. Good option traders can be finished trading by 11:00 a.m. on Monday mornings.

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