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A Random Walk In The Park On A Monday Morning. A Caution. Monday Mornings Are Often Not An Option Players Best Friend

Let's start with this. It's now 10:26 a.m. A bet on Caterpillar rebounding by the end of the week. There are no takers. Why have to watch the screen for the next four days in agony waiting for a rebound which if happens is just a "break even trade"? But Wait. I made a mistake. The market is actually now down 668 points. What else can we look at? Interactive Brokers. These kind of stocks always do poorly on days with the threat of margin calls. Yet there is something interesting about the printout I am about to show. It is that these options are "one-month-out" Calls. These longer term options trade differently than short term options. (these options trade in one month intervals). If the stock we are following stops it's freefall the value of the options will nudge up ten, fifteen or twenty percent. A seven dollar option Call might creep back up to $8.00 or $9.00 at which time it could be sold. In contrast with a five day option a slight reversal in ...

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

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.

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