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First Solar. Part Two And Visa And Walmart.

Back on Thursday I said don't hang onto First Solar Calls going into the Friday trading session after it dropped mid week about $30.00 in one day. Why be stuck in a one day option position just after it had a major drop? Revisit that blog if you like. Now let's move forward to Monday afternoon on January 12th. Here is how First Solar is now doing. It has had a bounce. This time we are looking at it's "this-weeks", Call options. Notice the open interest number? Those were mostly all positions opened up last week by forward thinking option players. Now this. Visa. Last week Trumph suggested at the end of the week that he wants to cap interest rates on credit cards at 10% for one year. Today is Monday afternoon. Look at Visa's one week chart. Visa dropped $10.00 on the (Monday) opening in reaction to this news. Now look at the action in the 340 series of Calls. Lets better look at this activity from a different perspective. Traders who bought Call options on ...

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Are a new animal and sometimes go dormant until something happens. If your a fan of "Caterpillar","Ford" and "Boeing" options your not really looking in that space. Sometimes it nice to have a list of "outside the box" companies" to watch. Here is one of those list and here is my experience with one of those such companies. Well, not the exact list but one similar to it. - this one with the symbol "APXT' I played it yesterday and today. In at noon yesterday, ten contracts at .35 each and out the next morning June 3th 2021 at 7:14 a.m. at .95 each. I kind of saw it go up after I bought so yes I did put in a sell ticket early in the morning at a price I was thinking it would hit. What happened was kind of interesting. Call it a perfect storm as the company came out with a news report. Option traders know that one dollar increase on ten dollar stocks can do wonders, even if we are talking about regular stocks and not spacs. A coupl...