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Last Day Options - Tesla

If your new to option trading you wil not have the courage to play "last-day-until-expiring options". I get that. Perhaps a mid week option trade would be better. Find a chart pattern that looks interesting and buy yourself a three day ride. Or safer yet, buy an option on Friday at the close with five days of trading life left in them. Correctly picking the right directional movement over such a time period would instill a feeling of confidence in what you are doing. If you fail in such an adventure what would I advise you to do? Give up? No. Study harder. Now let me throw this one at you. Here is a recap of a blog I posted yesterday where an option trade doubled in price in just less than ten minutes. In all fairness most newbie option traders would not be purchasing "out-of-the-money"Call options which expire in only a few hours. What I am about to say may sound a tad stupid. If you want to jump into the world option option trading Tesla is one of the top stocks...

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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 ...