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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...

Learning To Pick Your Battles - Walmart One More Time.

In the last week or so I have done four blogs on Walmart and each time I seem to show situations where traders can eke out small profits tracking the 91 or 91 series of Call options. What is the logic in such an approach? Well look at Walmarts one year chart compared to two other charts I have provided.
The difference of coarse is that Walmart's trading pattern has an upwards bias. One other factor comes into play in helping to make Walmart interesting options to play. The one dollar spreads between the "bid" and "ask" unlike the two dollar and fifty cent spreads between the "bids' and "asks" on stocks like Caterpillar and Boeing. This has the effect of making small changes in a stocks price more playable. Walmart also seems to have "less chatter". What do I mean by this? Well its not like Boeing which has scares of doors coming lose on their airplanes or like Caterpillar which is having to constantly adjust the size of their workforce. Does all of this mean Walmart options are for option players who take pride in being risk adverse? Not really. You still have to quick and nimble. Walmart for example jumped on the opening this morning as I am writing this blog and the 91 series of Calls are up 92% in the first ten minutes of trading.
Then look at the 92 Puts between 9:39 a.m. and 9:55 a.m.
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All this action happened in the first hour of trading! Walmart options while easy to play must be handled with respect. As a newbie looking at option trading I would suggest this is a good stock experiment with. Here is the morning chart which better explains how all this action happened.
How did Walmart end the day? Here is it's chart down below. If you caught the morning action you really wouldn't care.
The markets are closed tomorrow (thursday) for a presidential funeral so it's time to look at something else. Dicovering new opportunites is never hard to do.

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