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Friday One Day Option Trading Cut to The Chase

Let's start with Nvidia Puts on Friday March 15th, Over 55,000 contracts traded on this one series alone on the day.. ... The lows of the day happened when Nvidia was trading around $186.00 in the early morning. It was a smooth move downwards after that. Here is how the DJIA closed the day. 2) Home Depot. It opened stronger but closed the day totally flat. Here is how one series of it's Puts closed the day. Notice the spread between the near opening high and the low of the day. It like Nvidia sold off most of the day. 3) Tesla. One series of it's Put options traded over 45,000 contracts on the day. Other series may have traded more. It's chart like the two above was mostly down all day. .. 4) Apple is another stock that took a hit for over $5.00 on Friday. Here is how one series of it's Puts traded. 5) Caterpillar. In this case the big move down happened in the first hour of trading. So what is my point? For years and years option traders have stayed clear o...

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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 ...