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Walmart Starting With 2:25 p.m. On A Monday. It's Christmas Week.

First the one day chart. The markets on the day are down. Now it's Puts at 2:25 p.m. Now it's closing price. Now Tuesday morning. In some ways we are wasting our time watching what seems to sideways motion. Is this what successful option trading is all about? It's not like watching Tesla or Caterpillar coming out with earning reports, or watching Boeing jump up in price over the last few weeks. There really isn't any reason to be in this position, other than the indexes are down for the second day in a row. With the clock ticking away at you is this a good time to be risking your capital? Not really. It is a struggle. Now let's look at Walmart at the end of the day on Tuesday. The stock went down in value on the day as did the Puts. Yes the time value is going down which partially to blame but the indexes also had less of a drop than they did on the previous day. These are quiet markets during this holiday period with fewer news reports coming out. Let's...
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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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