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Do You Have To Be A Wizard To Play Exxon Mobile Options? You Decide.

Look at this chart. It's Exxon's one day trading chart of last Friday. Zoom,zoom, zoom. Here is it's five day chart. Shipping oil on the high seas is becoming more of a game of cat and mouse. Looking at the above five day chart would you want to holding this weeks 135 Calls starting the trading session on Monday morning? Here is how the 135 Calls closed the week. Now this, the premarkets on Monday morning. You can't trust these numbers. Sometimes the hype burns itself out before the markets open. At some point in this process the following news ws being assimilated. Now this. Exxon jumps on the opening but not that much and quickly gives up some of that gain. Now this. The Calls are up 25% in the first three minutes of trading. That's something but not bad if you bought in at the closing seconds of Friday's trading session. Are traders now rushing in to buy the Puts? Not really. Exxon Mobile commands respect. Now this at 9:57 a.m. Exxon is now down...

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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...