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Why I Don't Like Trading Options On McDonald's

Same stores sales are up 6.8% in Q4 2025. With inflation and rising labour and food costs, 6.8% is not really very much. Then the rumours about 2,000 or so more outlets opening up this year are the same projections that we heard over the last few years. What they always forget to tell us is the number of their restaurants shutting down. Why might some be shutting down? Well maybe a new highway going is diverting some of the road traffic off in a different direction or a neighbouring high school is closing down. Four years ago they lost some restaurants in Russia. Now look at this. Next this. McDonald's trading on the close back on Thursday. It had a good day. There is new talk about a bigger and better "Big Arch" meal with a bigger burger with a better tangy and creamy sauce. Now this. Today's one day chart. It's Monday. Now it's one day of Call option trading. Look at the volume of trading on these Call options. Over 6,000 contracts. The open interest ...

G.M. A Four Minute Read That Will Make You Smarter. Do You Have Four Minutes?

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Well actually it's a six minute read if you also want to read about an interesting dangerous Ford Call trade. Read this. I talks about the big picture. Look a how much money is being tossed around. Now ford. First it's five day cart. What happened? Well good news just came out that is being interpreted as being bad news. Now a look at the Call options that expire tommorrow Dec. 6th and next Friday Dec 13th. It will be interesting to see how this situation turns out.**Ford dropped in the last minute of the trading session with over 5 million shares getting dumped in the last minute of trading. Here is how the 10.5 series of Calls with one trading day left in them closed. Tomorrow will be interesting.

Vinfast Hits The Lottery! And AMC. "Action On One Week Five Dollar Options"

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This post is easy to write. It's also something skeptics of option trading should read. Look at how all on the options exploded on this one. Here is why. Both of these articles were from Nov26th and 27th. Why the time delay in having this stock pop is something I don't understand. Back on Sept 5th and Oct 27th I did I blogs on this stock. Go back and read them. Both times I ended these blogs by saying "Do your homework on this one". Read my blogs about playing options on $5.00 stocks. Here now is how Vinfast closed the day. Now look at how the five series of Calls closed on December 5th (with only one trading day of life left in them). Profits on options on five dollar stocks come and go quickly. Here is a quick look at another company with $5.00 options that expire tommorow which had a few hours of glory in the last two hours of trading today. AMC Entertainment. *** The AMC story is complicated and the stock price is manipulated. These three snippents tell par...