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Eli Lilly

When a stock drops over $50.00 in the first three hours on trading one a day and when the DJIA index is up can you play it for a one or two day partial rebound? $9.00 or nine hundred dollars gets you in. That's the question now being asked and based on the number of new Call contracts being purchased the answer is probably no. As of 11:50 a.m. I can't find any news to explain this drop. Now this, if you just came off a morning gain from trading Tesla Calls, see my last blog might you be willing to part with some of these winnings? This could be another short term opportunity given that the D.J.I.A is so strong. Lets check out the action in thirty minutes. The stock is up $3.81 and the Call options went from $9.00 to $11.80 in thirty minutes. Do you take the money and run? Very few traders are speculating in this series of Calls. There is the danger that in this kind of situations that a second shoe could drop at any minute. Yet the DJIA continues to remain positive. That sho...

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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...