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Super Micro Trying To Play The Downside After A Strong Earnings Report.

When a stock jumps bigtime on the opening can you play it on the downside? Now two series of its Puts that expire in two days. Now this. The Puts are starting to go up. What do you do next? Cash out with a slight gain? Here is it's five day chart. Can you see how trading short term options have periods of time leave you riveted to your seat. Now another update. .. Might this be a good time to get out and take your money back? Probably. The longer a stock like this goes sideways the less value the Puts will have. To be continued. Getting out was the thing to do. Here is how Super Micro closed on the day. Don't get married to short term options.

Ford - Earnings Come Out This Week. The Action on Monday - Thursday - This One Is A Good Read.

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It starts off slowly.... a storm in the brew. Earning reports are coming out for a multitude of companies this week. G.M. is one and a day later Ford. Rising rates means lower vehicle sales. But what's going to happen when the first 25,000 Ford electric truck drivers start to tell their friends about them? It's one of the weeks of the year many odd balls like me look forward to. So much can happen. It will be quite a ride.Here is where the 13 series of Calls and Puts are trading at 9:42 a.m.. Notice the bids and asks are tight which I like so that every ten cent move in the stock's price sets them off in different directions. Here now is what it's five day chart looks like now at 10:05 a.m. going into an earnings release this Wednesday. Ford didn't move all day and here the closing Call and Put readings. Now here is the news going into Tuesday's markets. Now a look at the Ford options twenty minutes after the opening bell. "/> It is interesting to...