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

Some option traders on Friday mornings just want to be in and out in the first hour or so of trading on short term options they feel comfortable trading. In the second half of the day most of the action calms down. Take your winnings and run. McDonalds sold off a little bit yesterday afternoon and firmed up a bit towards the closing. Could this "mostly downtrend" continue? Here is a partial look at the opening bell's action, today 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. Now this, McDonald's jumps up $4.98 and the 317.50 Puts we followed yesterday which are now "out-of-the-money" acted accordingly. 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 started to come off a touch. These Call options where not attacting all that much attention. The bid and ask jumped up ...

Getting On The Right Side of Trump

Jovy jumped. Here is something they make. Something like flying cars. Jovy is in the same space as a company called Unusual Machines.
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Now this, a Canadian company called Savaria.
It produces it's equipment in Canada and Mexico. With tariffs coming this could be problematic. The stock sold off last week. Trump has the power to move the markets. It's not fun trying to outguess his next move. The same thing happened the last time he was the President. Here is Savaria's five day chart.
Now Boeing. In past blogs on Nov.19th, Nov 4th and Oct 22nd and others I have mentioned how Boeing often seems to rally on Monday mornings. Today was no different. Here is it's five day chart including today which is a Monday.
Can you see how the Call options jumped in the morning? They also jumped last Friday.
Trump is making the markets more difficult to play.

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