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Lowe's Trading At 9:35 a.m. On A Friday

"After it happens written blogs" are not as interesting as "live-action follow this now" blogs. I realize that. Look at Lowe's trading at 9:34:59 on Friday morning. During that second 932 shares traded. The stock was at $202.21. Then at 9:35:00 a.m., in that second 24,370 shares traded. It's new price was $202.85. That's a $.64 cent increase in only one second. Why would that happen? Could it be A1 trading at exactly the 9:35:00 minute mark? I have talked about this before. Look at it's one day chart. Now look at how this one series of Calls, the 202.50 Calls that would be expiring that day traded. Imagine catching them at 9:35 a.m. when they traded down to $.20. Notice how few of these Call options traded.
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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 ...
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