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What A Week For Market Swings. This Time Boeing

My last two blogs have focused on options expiring on Mondays and Wednesdays. This blog on a Thursday deals with options that expire tomorrow on Friday. AS A GENERAL RULE PURCHASING CALLS ON A THURSDAY MORNING THAT EXPIRE THE VERY NEXT DAY IS NOT A SMART MOVE TO MAKE. We have witnessed huge daily price swings this week where profits from option trading can be made in a matter of hours. Now let's look at Boeing's morning action. Sometimes when you see charts like this and if you're coming off a streak of three or four profitable trades it's best to jump in hoping for a reversal to the upside and ask questions later. Especially when the D.J.I.A is strongly up in price as it was. I quickly looked around and couldn't find any news to account for this price drop. Trumph was in China and we later learned that there was talk of China ordering 200 more of Boeing's new airplanes. China is always going to want more airplanes. Talk like this is only talk. Now this at 9:51...

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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 ...