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Ford Motor Company Options

Ford was on a role. On a role that is until their reputation for poor quality control came back to haunt them. In the recent past it was basking in the new news it was entering into a new tranformational era. A new division, "Ford Energy" is going to start making lithium iron phosphate battery cells. Telsa and G.M are also on a similiar path. The stock surged on this news. This week a different reality set in. Yet another massive recall. This time 770,000 vehicles were recalled with one fix available by August and a second fix not available until April of 2027. Now look at it's three month chart. On this news option traders have jumped into the Puts. Look at the open interest in these two series of December options ... Now it's five day chart. Money was made on playing the downside in a 24 hour period of time after the recall news came out. This news came out June 30th and the biggest drop happened into the next morning's trading session. You really have to wat...

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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 ...