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One Day Boeing Puts On A Friday

I realize that this type of a blog has a limited appeal. A blog in part about watching option pricings on one particular series of Puts, the 215 series of Puts move on a minute-to-minute basis on a Friday before they expire. Here I am looking at Boeing Puts at 9:56 a.m. The stock has just gone up and the series of Puts shown above have gotten crushed. Now a look at it's five day chart. This is where it will get interesting. Notice the stock has already had a rebound off a sharp morning dip. Traders who used the 212.50 series of Calls on Boeing's soft opening were already well rewarded. Only 121 contracts have traded during this period of time. Here is what the indexes are doing. So that's it. You could wager $100.00 U.S. plus commisions for one Put contract (the 215 seriess of Puts that expire in the afternoon), or multiples thereof and walk away for the next four hours or so in the hopes the stock will have a bad day. In part it's a bet on your abilities to recogni...

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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 ...