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Tesla - Intraday Trading. It's Not Usually Like This.

Last Friday's blog covered the same topic. Here we are on Tuesday after Monday being a holiday. Tesla down $12.58. We are looking at Call options five dollars "out-of-te-money" with 3.5 days of trading life in them. ... Now this. A bit of a pop after lunch. Now here is how the stock traded on the day. Can you see how the exit point at 2:10 p.m. was a tad premature. Yet look at how smooth a ride it was. What did these Call options ended up trading for at the end of the day? Well it doesn't really matter. This was a roller coaster ride. My last blog about playing Tesla showed the vary same thing happening. Yes you can play these options if you time it right. Timing is everything.

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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...