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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...

Boeing On A Dip

First it's five day chart.
Stocks after a dip like this sometimes take time to recover. Buy nexts weeks Calls just slightly "out-of-the-money" and sell this week's Calls against them. Here are the two series we are talking about.
Now the series with the shorter expiracy date.
Buy the longer term Calls and sell the shorter term Calls and hope the shorter term Calls expire worthless. What caused Boeing to sell off so quickly? Airports were crowded over the long weekend that we just had. People where flying in record numbers. Now read this.
So what to think? Boeing, partially because of it's size is easy to criticize. Yet a few cleverly worded paragraghs should not be enough to set off alarm bells. One takeaway is that there is a risk involved in purchasing Boeing Call at 3:59 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, especially before a long weekend. This stock has struggled as of late. Now at look at the two options series we just talked about after the close today, a Thursday. On a percentage basis this weeks Call lost more than next weeks Calls..
After tomorrows closing (a Friday) I will tell you what all this means. Boeing sold off on Friday (
) and the 165 Calls that I suggested should be sold as part of a spread ended up expiring worthless Here they are.
Here now also is the closing reading on next weeks series of 165 Calls and Boeings five day chart on the week.
Doing this spread at this point in time kind of backfired because Boeing dipped again today. Yes you do get to keep the $157.00 you collected on the expired Call contract you sold however the offsetting 165 Call one would have purchased to create this spread is also down now. A bounce on Monday or Tuesday is now needed to save "next-weeks" Call option. Now Monday at 11:30 a.m.
At this point in time you are in a break even situation if you did the spread I talked about. It's not exactly a pleasant ride. Tuesday had news. Boeing always has news.
Tuesday. Did you get out of the 165 Calls yesterday to recoup last weeks investment? The 160 Calls are the ones that could now gain from a short term rally.
To be continued.

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