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The Auto Industry Is Under Control

Look at this printout. Almost every stock on this list was totaly flat. Tesla up fifteen cents. Do you know how seldom this happens? It never does. Yet it happened today. Now this, a chart of how Telsa traded on the day. Look at the three hour price swing between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Now this. The 30 day out Call options on Tesla. Now the thirty day out Put options. They mimic the same kind of price swings. Intraday price swings of $7.20 and $6.97 on these two series of options. So why is this important? Watching thirty day out options is increasingly becoming a smarter way of churning out profits. In these examples one is putting out sums of money like $2,000.00 U.S. with the expections of daily returns, well in this case about $700.00. I know what you might be thinking. You might be thinking that the risk/reward aspect of the equation doesn't make sense. In response to those concerns I would say employing this strategy works best for traders already engaged in trading ot...

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...