Posts

Showing posts from June, 2021

Featured

Lucid. Options On $6.00 Dollar Stock With Two Days To Go Are Difficult To Trade

What do you think about this chart? It's one of those falling of a cliff charts. It's a Thursday morning and it looks like this stock is kind of in a downdraft. Look at my most recent blog on Rivian. The bad news on Lucid could be a hangover effect caused by Rivan's one day prior bad news story. It was talk about Rivian going back to the markets to raise more money even though they were starting to lose less of it. It was a good-news, bad- news story. A story which would take a few days for the markets to digest. Let's now look at two series of Lucid's Calls which expire tomorrow. We now find ourselves forty one minutes into the market's opening trading action. The 26 series of "out-of-the-money" Calls that expire tomorrow are trading last at $.03 cents. ... Now this. Now look a this small rebound twenty five minutes later. .. Here is where it gets a touch confusing. The $5.50 Calls which were once at $.22 cents are now $.30 and the $6.00 series of...

Spacs

Image
Are a new animal and sometimes go dormant until something happens. If your a fan of "Caterpillar","Ford" or "Boeing" options you're 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 ...