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Why The First Two Or Three Minutes Of Trading After The Markets Drop Over 800 Points Can Be So Important To Option Traders.

Option traders already know this. The market sometimes pops on the opening after a large one day drop. Yesterday, a Monday it closed down over 800 points. The problem sometimes is that if you put in a ticket in the premarkets to get in on the opening, a "buy at market" ticket you risk getting filled at a ridiculously high price if the price of the stock opens with a gap to the upside. Let's look at how one series of Home Depot Call options traded on the opening. Today is a Tuesday. The low of the day on these Call options happened on the opening with a price of $6.46. The chart doesn't show this low priced sale happening. Let me try and explain how this happened. Look at this. Here is where it can get complicated. The chart above shows a spike at 9:00 a.m. Yet the markets don't open until 9:30 a.m. You can't trade options in the premarkets. If you submit a "buy-at-market" or "sell-at-market" ticket it sits on the books and gets an opening...
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Ford's Largest One Day Share Price of The Year - Or Santa Claus Came Early.

Ok, so yesterday, a Thursday I looked at Ford because management was in the news saying they are going to stop taking more preorders on their upcoming F150 electric truck. They have too many orders. They were also saying look out world - we are going electric. V.W. and Toyota were also making similiar claims. Here is a look at Ford at 12:11 p.m. today.
At noon Ford was up 5.6% and their short term options which expire today were up ten fold. Stocks the size of Ford seldom jump that much in one morning. Why didn't lightbulbs go off in my head yesterday saying lets take a flyer on Ford Call options for tomorrow with one day's trading life left in them? That would be the Dec 10th 20 Calls. As you can see, the 20 Calls this morning went from .06 or six dollars a contract to .61 or sixty one dollars a contract at noon! Then looked at how they ended up the day. A .06 or six dollar contract would be worth one hundred and forty three dollars! A six hundred dollar investment would be worth fourteen thousand and forty three dollars.
Let's pause for a few seconds. I don't make this stuff up. It actually happened today. It was Ford's largest one day share price rise of the year.
Look also at how the Ford 21 Calls traded today. They are the Call options with a striking price one dollar higher. No one really expected the stock to pop another dollar after rallying on the previous day. Boy so many people were wrong. Ford exploded upwards on the opening again like it did on the previous day and shot upwards to the moon. Near the start of the day the Ford 21 series of Calls traded at .01 or one dollar. Then look at what happened! The Call options that started the day at one dollar a contract ended up the day at forty five dollars a contract! A one thousand dollar flyer with the Ford 21 Calls could have made you enough to puchase a decent new car.
Sometimes when I see old men with no hair and glasses driving shiny Mustang convertibles around town I wonder if they paid for them with their profits from playing options on Ford.

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