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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...

Deere. One Issue With Thinly Traded Call Options On Stocks In The $450.00 Price Range That Expire in Four Days

It's chart. It's Tuesday morning and the stock Deere has being going sideways for a few trading sessions.
Let's now focus on the "bid and ask". Look at the spread and think back to the "bid-and-ask" on the stock Walmart I wrote about yesterday. The spread (the "bid and ask") on options on Walmart yesterday was like two pennies ( "bid $1.04-ask $1.06") at 10:09 a.m. which can be a very turbulent period of time.
It's late in the morning trading session well past the first hour of morning jitters. If you want to buy in on Deere Calls what would you be willing offer? $3.50.? That's only a guess. If you want to sell what would be the suggested selling price? This wide spread (a spread of $3.26 dollars) is a total turnoff. Now this. A look at the trading action near the end of the day on this same options postion. Here are it's one day and five day charts. The markets are off and the stock Deere now is up.
Now the same 440 series of Deere Call options at 3:49:00 p.m.
One final conclusion which can only be verified by repeated observations. We are afterall not not privy to how logarithms work. When you see the spread on Call options increase to preposterous proportions on stocks in the $450.00 price range with four days left to go before expiring you can be assured that there is some kind of action happening in the background causing a push to go up.

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