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A Look At "The Bids And Asks" On Two Different Series Of Put Options That Expire In A Few Hours

On July 3th the markets were closing at 1:00 p.m. with July 4th also being a holiday. Many traders were disconnected from the markets. It is holiday time. Let's look at these two different option series. 1) Boeing. It jumped up in price over $4.00 in early market trading. Boeing does that sometimes on Fridays. It's 10:15 a.m. and here are the slightly "out-of-the-money" $215.00 series of Puts which are just over $1.00 "out-of-the-money". The stock is at $216.21. These Puts expire in less than three hours. If Boeing started to give back some of it's gains these Puts could be worth big money.The stock is at $216.21 and the striking price of $215.00 isn't really all that far away. Look at how cheap these Puts have suddenly become. What ended up happening? Here is a summary of how Boeing end up trading on the day. Boeing never ended up selling off to below the $215.00 price range. The 215 Puts ended up expiring worthless. *** There was other ac...

Ffie "Faraday Future" - Another Electric Vehicle Story

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First the stock price. Watch their videos. It's having a good day. Look at how it is trading on the opening. Who said money is flowing out of California? Put this stock on your watch list and sign up to get their notifications.**** Tuesday morning. A second wave of buying. In these upwinds another winner seems to be Mullen. Here is it's chart. Do your own homework on this one. Dangerous stocks however somehow they have managed to get this far. Going forward you can't build EV's in low numbers and expect to make a profit. These companies may not survive.

"Ford Motor Company" Blogs are Always the Easiest to Understand

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PART ONE. It's a company that makes cars and trucks and the stock currently is at around $14.00 per share. Sell more vehicles on a monthly basis and the price of the stock will go up. That's pretty simple. Now read this latest news. So was that all good news or bad news or a combination of both? Sales were down annually over 7%. Remember also how many of the previous news releases talked about a high number of trucks sitting in parking lots waiting for a few final parts before they can be shipped out. Here now is a look at the 14 series of Calls which will expire in five trading days. They are trading at 20 dollars a contract so the break even number at the end of the week would have to be around $14.20 per share. PART TWO. I played the same series of Calls last week, buying them at 9:42 a.m. last Monday morning. Here are the two fills. It's about the same price now as it was last last week at the same time. Now to answer the question of how I did. I was offside big ti...

Nio Calls. Please Read My November 18th Blog First.

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It happened again. A little drop on a weak Monday morning opening and then a rocketblast upwards. I my last blog I called it exhausting. All this action happened in the first thirty minutes of trading. Was it news related? No. The disemination of news can't happen that quickly. If you like playing short term dangerous options then watch this stock closely. Here is it's end of day readout. Tomorrow the same craziness will start all over again. A Nov30th update. Now the entire day. 173 million shares traded on the day! Trying to play options on them with two days now to go would be tough. * A Friday review and a reason for all of this activity. Remember this stock once traded much higher. *** A December 10th update. NIO was the NYSE most active share traded by share volume. It is one to watch.

Strong Days for The Electric Vehicle Stocks - Well Not Really

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Here is a one day printout of some of the electric vehicle stocks I watch. Notice their fifty-two week highs. Many of these stocks are trading near their lows. About six weeks ago many of these stocks were out of fashion based on the thinkings that the batteries they are running on are depleting the world of precious metals and will be difficult to dispose of. Yet consumers still want to go electric and a few companies had good news. Lordstown Motors (Ride) had good news. A year ago a Tiawan company bought their factory and this week that same company (Foxconn) invested more money in them. More details about this follows below. Lucid had good news. A Saudi public investment fund is its majority shareholder, and committed to putting in more cash this past week. Rivian's $32 billion market cap and Lucid's $22 billion market cap suggest that investors think they'll make it. Nikola has a market cap of just over $1 billion, its own truck plant, and $400 millian in cash, enough t...

BlackBerry - How Long Will the Wait Be for This Company to Turn a Profit?

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I want to begin this blog by saying I am embarrassed to be writing about this company. So many investors know so much more about this company than I do. I am not privy to any inside information. I have just scanned a fifty nine page financial report on the company that you can find on the website "Sedar". I note a recent litigation settlement. The company seems to think thats all part of doing business and I note they sold their company aircraft. There are 577 million shares outstanding and they lose money. Shareholders have not had much to cheer about so far this year. Here is a three year chart and year to date chart. So far so good? Are you wondering where I am going with all this? First I want to talk about the big bounces it had in each of the last two years. Other stocks too had unusual bounces like this one. I mentioned in a blog last May the bounce on a stock called Sundial once had. Please read this next paragraph. It's the essence of what "meme stocks...

A Canadian Electric Bus Maker with a Story and A December 13th 2022 Update

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In the past bus manufacturing companies in Canada got a bad rap. Overhead is high and after sales servicing costs can bury you. Having said this do you know about The Lion Electric Company? A Quebec based maker of electric school busses and now planning on opening up a plant in the U.S.. Earnings come out in ten days.They might be losing money but they might be onto something good. Here is some background information as to why the timing may be right this time. Read about them on the "Sedar Website". That tells you everything. Interesting right? A backlog or 2,357 vehicles. They need to execute better to speed up production. In the past that has being a problem. Let's hope they are not locked in at fixed prices. Now for a thirty day chart. Now for it's three year chart. This might suprise. It is a business which requires economies of scale. So here is what I did in the recent past. I am currently down $25.00 I bought two Jan 19th 2024 Calls with a striking price...