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Looking for Unusual Experiences. "BigBear".

There is a little stock that has recently started to gain an inordinate amount of attention. It trades millions of shares per day and I recently started blogging about it. It's price changes on a daily basis can be dramatic. Here once again are it's details. Now it's thirty day and five day chart. Option players playing one week options on this stock are getting wild rides. Look at this, today's one day chart. Now look at today's Puts. It's one day, six series of Puts on it traded at a low of $.03 cents in the morning and then shot up in the afternoon. $.35 cents was the high. Is there any point in taking this stock seriously and tracking how it's options are trading? Usually I would say not really however when I see millions of shares trading everyday I know that millions of Americans who can trade commission free can glue themselves to their computer screens and play like these these options all day long enjoying these two and three and ten cent price...
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The Power of "Ford" Options

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Why am I stuck in the mud watching Ford when there are hundreds of more exciting stocks to watch? That's a good question. The answer I guess has something to do with the concept of leverage and how options on stocks in the five to fifteen dollar price range can sometimes have explosive moves based on percentage increases in short periods of time. Look at this week's chart of Ford and look at the opportunities it provided option playes. So the question then becomes how is it possible to anticipate these moves? Well the first big move upwards on the far left hand side of the chart was an earnings release explosion. The following chart better shows how the stock traded in the few days leading up to the release of this news. That was an instant double if you were paying the short term Calls. In at 3:58 p.m. on the previous trading day and out at 9:34:00 a.m. on the following morning. Trying to anticipate earning reports is tricky. With Ford there were reports of chip shortages...
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