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McDonalds Again And A Follow Up To Yesterday's Blog..

Option traders on Friday mornings just want to be in and out in the first hour or so of trading on short term options. In the second half of the day most of the action calms down. McDonalds sold off a little bit yesterday afternoon and firmed up a bit towards the closing. Could this "mostly downward trend" continue? Here is a partial look at some of the opening bell's activity. Today is a Friday however let us first look at how the stock traded yesterday. Now a look at it's trading pattern at 9:32.22 a.m. The McDonald stock jumped up $4.98 and the 317.50 Puts we followed all day yesterday which are now "out-of-the-money" acted accordingly. They shrunk in value. During the fist 2.22 minutes of trading they traded down to 34 dollars a contract. Now this. In the first three minutes of trading the stock jumped a bit and then started to come off a touch. These Call options where not attacting all that much attention. The bid and ask jumped up on no volume. ...

Economics 101 and 102

When a hurricane comes to Florida buy Puts on Home Depot (symbol HD) and if it's a really bad hurricane and you see cars on the t.v. floating down roads buy Calls on Avis Budget Group (symbol Car). That's Economics 101. Economics 102 is to buy Puts on Visa (symbol V) or Puts on Master Card (symbol MA) whenever Fed Chair Jerome Powell is about to make a speech.
Here is todays reaction on yesterdays news. These are sizeable drops. You could even have bought in just after the speech was made. On the earnings front Moderna dropped today as did Roku.
What a day. P.s. Moderna and Roku then both came back up again. Given this bad news that should make them more difficult to play on the upside going forward. Shouldn't it?

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