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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...

Options On Stocks In The Four and Five Dollar Range Can Be Dangerous

Summer holidays are now over for most people and many of us are now back online figuring out how we survived the summer. Look at these charts. It's Lucid, an electric car making company and it's stock is now near the five dollar price range. Options on stocks in this price range are difficult to play. I made that comment in a posting last week on the stock A.M.C. Entertainment and watched it bounce on a Monday morning to then only give up it's gain. Why not just buy the stock if you like? That makes more sense. That is one of the reasons that the volume in these Calls is so light. Now look at Lucid's one month, five day and three year charts.
Now against this backdrop consider this. "In-the-money" Call options with one month to go. What one would be hoping for is some kind of a good news annoucement.
The early October time period is afterall is not that far away.
These $.60 cent Calls (or $6.00 dollar a contract) could go to $1.20 (or $12.00 a contract) on any kind of a pop. Here they are again on the opening on September 4th.
Notice the "ask" has jumped up to a crazy number. When you buy options on thinly traded series you almost have to buy in on days it is trading down. Lets also now look at the 3.5 series of Calls that expire in three days.
This seems to now be where the action is with a much more realistic bid and ask.
To be continued. A September 4th update (Wednesday at the close) Faraday Future update. I have talked about this stock before.Look at how it's $5.00 Calls that expire this Friday traded. Up 1,900 % on the day. They closed Tuesday the day before at .04 cents.
Sometimes five dollar options will suprise. A September 11th update.

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