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Tesla Calls Are A Different Animal. l Watch The First Hour Of Trading On A Friday Morning

Here is Tesla's one day chart on Thursday. Now hear is how the 440 Calls and Puts closed the day on Thursday. The 430 Calls cost $5.25 and the 430 Puts cost $4.97.In the premarkets just before the opening it was up. So what happened? Well the Calls doubled in price and the Puts obviously got beat up. ....... The Puts really got beat up. As a Call holder you can walk away and say thank you. That's what trading Tesla options is all about. You took a risk and you deserve a profit. Part Two. Thinking about playing the downside given the stock is up. Look at this printout of the Tesla 450 Puts which is more reflective of where the stock is now trading at. It's 9:38 a.m. in the heat of the action when the stock is still surging up. Would it be wise to think about such a move? Not really. It's still early in the trading session. Let's see what these Puts are doing 26 minutes later. Telsa at 10:24 keeps going up. The 440 Calls are even higher in price now. All th...

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...