CAT Puts

Let's start with it's five day chart. You can see how it zoomed upwards this week as a result of it's earning report. If you want to play the downside next's weeks options are going to cost you something like $1,000.00 per contract. Here are how one series of Puts, the 575 Puts closed the day on Friday. So the stock has to drop like $12.00 in five trading sessions just to break even. What a daunting challenge trying to figure out these ones. Many option players accustom to playing the ups and downs of Caterpillar when it was trading at price levels like $300.00 or $350.00 now feel totally out of the game. It's not a game for the little guys. I get it. Now this, a look at how Caterpillar traded on the day last Friday. Between 10:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. the stock dropped $15.00 dollars. The one day options that were expiring that day had an amazing price swing. So a new trend I see happening is a shift away from playing one and two week out options to playing the on...

What's going to happen with the options on Ford today? Can daytraders expect to make money trading them? Let's try and answer this question. This blog is not as easy to read and understand as my previous blog on "last-day-option-trading" on the stock Tesla . Tesla has bigger one day price swings than Ford does. Here is what Ford's one day chart looks like as of 11:00 a.m. on a Friday morning. Let's back up a little bit. Look at how thse two series of Calls and Puts at 9:40 a.m. are trading. They both expire today. ..... If the stock was to rebound suddenly up to the $13.05 range the Calls could go up to $.13 or $.14 cents a contract from their current $.11 ($11.00) per contract price. It's best to buy them in quantities of 25 or more contracts at one time. If you lived in the U.S. and got free commissions trading, options like this could be a very quick and profitable experience. In Canada where I live not so much so. The commissions would eat up a chun...

Here is Tesla's one day chart on Thursday. Now here is how the 440 Calls and Puts closed the day on Thursday. The 430 Call contracts cost $5.25 and the 430 Puts cost $4.97 going into Friday mornings action. In the premarkets just before the opening the stock was up almost eight dollars. You can see that in the list of auto stocks below. Then in the premarket trading around 9:28 a.m. it was only up about $5.00. An "at-the-market" ticket to purchase a Call option at 8:00 a.m. would have added another profit of about $300.00 dollars on the opening bell. There are times however when premarket moves vanish in the blink of the eye before the market actually opens. I have witnessed that happen many times before. So what happened? Well the Calls doubled in price in the first six minutes of trading and the Puts obviously got beat up. ....... Yes the Puts really got beat up. As a Call holder you can walk away from this strong opening and say thank you. That's what trading ...

Boeing released quarterly earnings today. The stock got smoked. Now it's three month and one month charts. What was the bad news today? Could this be one of those bad news is actually good news situations? Afterall, Boeing keeps on pumping out more airplanes. The problem is they keep losing big money. That's a big problem. All I know is here is how this one series of Friday Call options are trading at the close of Wednesday's session. To me they are far to expensive. It might take some time to shake off this bad news syndrome. Now this on Thursday morning. Remember the 212.50 Calls we were looking at? They got smoked. Now with one day to go these options have popped up on the radar screen. The 205 Calls when Boeing is at $206.61. Charts like this usually end up going sideways or slightly down for the rest of the day. Here they are again 31 minutes later later. At this point in time charts like could turn around. Might this be an opportunity to consider? Should yo...