CAT Puts

What a chart. A safer bet would be these "near-the-money" Puts. But wait. Only 32 contracts traded. It's wednesday and that's the day of the week big on option reversals for "one-week-options". In a world of computer generated trades why aren't more option contracts popping up on our screen. Boeing has 182,000 thousand employees each with their own special insights as to how their company is doing. We just reported a share price of 8% in one day. It doesn't get any better than this to speculate the Boeing could give up some of this gain. Let's think bigger. Boeing might go up another ten dollars in the next two days and fifty dollars in the next thirty days. It has the power to do that. But what happens if all of Trumph's this week peace rhetoric goes up in smoke? This is not a bet on Boeing. It's a bet on Trumph. In option trading you sometimes have to make trades that are not comfortable and even if you lose you know it's all part...

It's Tuesday morning and Boeing jumped up $17.30 on the previous day. That's a jump in the stocks price of 8%. Here is it's one day chart. There was news. It helped that the markets in general had a good day. Will the stock jump again on the opening? In premarket trading it's slightly up. Can you catch the downside action with Puts on the opening? Should you? Is fighting a strong stock a stupid thing to do? Here we are three minutes into the trading action. The stock is only up a touch yet these two series of Puts are down, one series 37% and the second series 41% and the trading day is just opening. Both are super leveraged trading vehicles. But wait. The bad news is that the markets are surging up. Caterpillar is on fire. Is hanging around with Boeing Puts a smart idea in times like this? Not really. Just get out. Get out. Forget this ever happened. Who cares if these Puts go even higher. A ten minute trade lets you get on with the day. Caterpillar also offered...

It's Friday July 31st. Look at this stocks one and five day charts and then look at how one series on Puts which expire today struck gold. First it's one and five day chart. ... I don't know much about this stock however this blog follows the last blog on the topic of buying Puts on spiking stocks. Look at how this one series of Puts below has reacted on this one day selloff. Had I picked a series of Puts further "out-of-the-money" the gains would be even more remarkable. Look at the low of the day which happened on the morning spike and look at where the option is at now! Yet wait the game is not as easy as it looks. How often does a stock drop that much in one day? Not very often. Look at how Apple dropped like 30 points after an earning's release and this series of "out-of-the-money" Puts merely doubled. It could be argued that risk involved in making the trade outweighed any potential reward. If we now go back to our friend, the stock name...

Can daytraders catch the action like this? 99% of daytraders don't. I watch it, I track it, I occassionally catch some of the action. This morning there was an incredible score to be had. Let me spell it out in greater detail. Look at this chart. It shows how the Ford stock opened on the opening. It opened up about ten cents. That's what the above chart shows. Now let's move on. The next chart is a five day chart. The D.J.I.A. dropped over one thousand points yesterday. Ford surged upwards on an earnings release an then had a partial selloff in the afternoon. Now if you look carefully at this five day chart you will see the slight rebound on the opening. (The one day chart actually shows it better). The 15 series of Ford Puts that expire tomorrow got squeezed. Look at how much they got squeezed for. At the height of this mornings 10 cent uptick they got squeezed down to $.04 per contract. Now lets check in at 11:55 a.m. Can you see how they hit a high of $.42 cents?. I ...

Let's start with a comment made by a Ford executive on the release of their quarterly earning report. There will be a "sunsetting of certain vehicles as we refresh our portfolio". What an elegant way saying they are surviving the changing times. Earnings for the June quarter are $.42 cents per share up from $.37 cents on the quarter a year earlier. Yesterday around 11:00 a.m. would have been a good time to catch a ride on this week's Call options. Let's watch how the markets will react to this news on the opening. Let's look at this week's Call options expiring on Friday (today is a Wednesday) and the January 15 Calls for 2027. That buys you about six months of time. First this week's Call options. They closed yesterday at $.46. Now the January 2027 Calls with a $15.00 striking price. They are a longer term play. Let's what happens on the opening. Will option traders be able to take their money and run? ... Take your money and run or wait? The...

You have to be quick on the opening. It's a Tuesday. Look at this five day chart which has a spike up formation. The last day on the above five day chart is today's trading action. Here now is it's one day trading chart as of the close on Tuesday. You had to buy in early, really early on the opening dip. So the stock closed Monday at $346.09 and on Tuesday sixty seconds into the mornings trading action (which was 9:31:00 a.m.) it was $344.31. Then at 9:32:00 one minute later it was at $343.80. That's an opening drop of $2.29. Now look at this one series of Call options. A low of $375.00 at 9:33 a.m. and a high of $750.00 at 9:56:00 a.m. This is a case of playing a "step-up" chart formation in the first hour of trading. After that the upward thrust ran out of steam. It helped that the D.J.I.A was up 537 points on the day. Buying in on early morning dips on a stock with a"step-up" chart formation sometimes is a profitable experience.