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Last Day Options - Tesla

If your new to option trading you wil not have the courage to play "last-day-until-expiring options". I get that. Perhaps a mid week option trade would be better. Find a chart pattern that looks interesting and buy yourself a three day ride. Or safer yet, buy an option on Friday at the close with five days of trading life left in them. Correctly picking the right directional movement over such a time period would instill a feeling of confidence in what you are doing. If you fail in such an adventure what would I advise you to do? Give up? No. Study harder. Now let me throw this one at you. Here is a recap of a blog I posted yesterday where an option trade doubled in price in just less than ten minutes. In all fairness most newbie option traders would not be purchasing "out-of-the-money"Call options which expire in only a few hours. What I am about to say may sound a tad stupid. If you want to jump into the world option option trading Tesla is one of the top stocks...

A Four Minute Intro to Nio

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Last week Ford was the second most active stock traded on the NYSE by share volume. It closed at $17.83, down 1.2% on the week. Nio was the fourth most active stock traded on the NYSE by share volume.That's an accomplishment in itself. It closed at $20.94 down 9.8%. Here is a picture of one of the electric cars it races. It is the fastest electric car in the world. Here now is some company news. Now let's look at it's trading history starting with a three year chart and followed by a one year chart and then finally a one week chart. Might this stock, and Ford start to rebound back up in the first quarter of this year? It's chart isn't particularly attractive but the story behind the chart seems to be good. The stock's price got ahead of itself. I will be tracking the Call and Put options on it this week. *** I am not a fan of purchasing Calls or Puts with one week to go on stocks in the 20 price range. The premiums are to high with only five trading days to...