CAT Puts

Back on April 2nd I did a blog called "Two Hour End Of Week Option Trading on Tesla". In that blog it was noted that Tesla dropped in price starting at 1:30 p.m. and 42 minutes later it was $5.95 lower in price, approaching the "must-get-out" at 3:00 p.m. mandated option deadline. Put option buyers getting in around 2:00 p.m. did well on their investments. (The stock was down $20.67 on the day). Here was it's chart on that day. It was a Thursday with Friday being Good Friday. Now let's fast forward to today's action, it being the following Friday. Tesla options had a tough start to the day. Here an example of what I am talking about. Look at the 347.50 series of Calls at 12:34 p.m. Are you able to see how they are down in price on the day? Down and dangerously "out-of-the-money". Now this. A look at how these same options closed out the day. They charged back upwards towards the close. The $140.00 option price we were looking at below is act...

Here is how it seems to be set up to go. How it all turns out might surprise you. We are expecting a slightly weak opening on the price on Ford's stock price this morning and on the D.J.I.A. index. Yes there is fresh news on the Ford Motor Company before the opening. They have announced yet another recall. This time it's for "wiper blade" issues on over 400,000 vehicles. That number is not a typing error. At least it's not a recall for engine or transmission problems. In an odd sort of way this news will help to get past customers back into their showrooms for like thirty minutes or so. The recall should be a quick, one time fix. It's still however going to cost them massive headaches to organize and millions of dollars. What an inconvience for a large number of drivers. Look at these two premarket readouts, the second one at 9:00 a.m. Can you see Ford's stock price trading down in the premarkets?. The question is how much will the 11.5 series of Calls d...

Tesla now has option series that expire on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. A handfull of other stocks shown below have also switched to this same format. Before that they expired only once a week on Friday with traders often wondering if they should jump onboard Thursday seconds before the closing bell looking for a definitive move on the opening. With this new 'three-times-a-week" format traders will be watching the action on Fridays, prior to the markets closing, looking for Monday morning moves. This switchover started back on January 28th of this year. All of the stocks listed below were part of this new change. Now watch the wild action on one series of Tesla Calls today. First it's five day chart. Now it's early Monday morning chart. Look at how it has given up it's opening gain. Option traders who bought Call options just before the close last Friday had a morning opportunity to get out at a decent profit. Now this, a look at one series of its Call optio...

There is always news. War news. News on gas prices and news that Costco is trying to sue the government over tariff monies. Two weeks ago I mentioned a situation with Super Micro Computer. That stock really got beat up when a company officer was arrested. Now that news is slowly being shrugged off. Now this, the car leasing company Avis has a story. To better help explain what is happening let's look at it's five day chart. . What's going on? Articles are appearing saying that stocks in this sector are being boosted by TSA Airport chaos. Yet there has to be more news than that. Look at it's latest five day chart. Here now as shown below is how the 170 series of Calls last Friday closed out the day. On that day alone the stock closed up $20.35 dollars! Options trading at $4.00 jumped up to $21.00! Other stocks in the same sector remained relatively unchanged. The stock is now in nose bleeding territories. Obviously options on this stock will be hot potatoes this we...