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Catching The Smallest of Moves Exxon On A Friday Morning.

Exxon on Friday morning. It's five day and one day charts. .............. ..... No real volume in the Calls. Now this. Volume is coming in. It would be nicer to see the spread shrink a little bit. At this price the option makers are putting on a brave face to cover up the low of $.44 which just happened. Let's see if a rebound happens in ten minutes. Not really but the rate of declining seems to be slowing down. If you check the Puts you can see the downward action is stabilizing. In a way this is a good indication that now is a good time to jump into the Calls. Now watch this. Now this. Now this 5 minutes later. At 10:24 a.m. it's chart looks healthy. Now at 10:30 a.m. Now at 10:54.a.m. We caught the morning rebound without to much worry. That was the game plan. Getting out would make sense no matter what we leave on the table. *** Now this nine minutes later. These options just lost most of their gains! Sometimes it's good to be nimble! Now this at 1...

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...