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Netflix - One Day vs Next Weeks Calls.

It's Thursday and the DJIA is up. Here is how Netflix is doing. Now this. Remember that this stock recently did a 10-1 forward stock split. Things don't look good, why isn't the stock sharing in today's upward glee? In situations like this it's best just to stay away. Look at how cheap the Call options look that expire tomorrow. They look tempting however next weeks Call options offer so much more security. Now this at 12:38 p.m. The markets continue to go up. Netflix continues to sell off. Now tomorrows and next week's Calls just after noon. The ones that will take the most heat for the rest of the day will be the short term options. There are decent volumes in both of these series of options. An end of the day report. First the options that expire tomorrow. It would be silly to be in this series of Calls. Now next weeks Calls. Now it's five day chart. One week options are a long way away. Stocks with a bias to the downside are difficult to t...
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Deere and Company - One Of The Most Dangerous Series Of Call and Put Options to Play When There Is Only Hours To Go.

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If you have winnings from a previous trade sometimes you value that money differently. It's difficult to explain why but there are scholars out there who have written books on this very topic. It's like play money or free money that you can now use to make the wildest option trades you can think of. It's money you feel you can risk. It's like being a kid in a candy store with money in your pocket. Everything looks good.There are two stocks that I sometimes follow, Dominos Pizza and John Deere. Both have options available to trade on them however the Call and Put options on the first one, Dominos are near impossible to trade. Why? Well on a Friday morning with options expiring that day on it, how do you predict which direction the stock on the world's largest pizza company is going to go? The answer is you can't. The company is painfully aware that one news release about the price of cheese going up or problems with their ordering apps could send their stock int...
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