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McDonalds Again And A Follow Up To Yesterday's Blog..

Option traders on Friday mornings just want to be in and out in the first hour or so of trading on short term options. In the second half of the day most of the action calms down. McDonalds sold off a little bit yesterday afternoon and firmed up a bit towards the closing. Could this "mostly downward trend" continue? Here is a partial look at some of the opening bell's activity. Today is a Friday however let us first look at how the stock traded yesterday. Now a look at it's trading pattern at 9:32.22 a.m. The McDonald stock jumped up $4.98 and the 317.50 Puts we followed all day yesterday which are now "out-of-the-money" acted accordingly. They shrunk in value. During the fist 2.22 minutes of trading they traded down to 34 dollars a contract. Now this. In the first three minutes of trading the stock jumped a bit and then started to come off a touch. These Call options where not attacting all that much attention. The bid and ask jumped up on no volume. ...

Caterpillar Is Up And Trump Wins

Today.
It's going to have to prove it's worth that much more. Then Tesla. It came to the party.
Things were not so kind to First Solar.
Then weed stocks all got kicked in the pants.
Drug companies chilled.
Finally charging station companies were pinched.
It's amazing how quickly the markets adapted a new mindset. Between now and Christmas trading on options is going to become the wild west. Look at how these two series of Calls traded today on Caterpillar. The first series are the $400 Calls.
These Calls closed the previous day at $1.09 and closed out today at $17.43. It gets even crazier. These Caterpillar Calls with a $415.00 striking price closed out the previous day at sixteen dollars a contract and today closed out at six hundred and five dollars a contract. That's a gain of 3,681%!!!
What a show! Talk about excess exuberance.

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