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Looking Beyond A Day The Market Drops 483 Points In One Day. I Pick Boeing

Forget everything you know about Boeing. (It's most recent crash now points to a pilot error). The DJIA crashed on a Tuesday. It was down 432 points. Boeing was off fifty-one cents on the day. That's only a small amount. This companies chart pattern looks like it wants to go up. It spiked upwards Monday morning and rewarded those option traders brave enough to hold it over the weekend. It closed higher on that day. Then on Tuesday, once again it lost fifty-one cents. It is my opinion that Tuesdays going into Wednesdays are interesting times to hold short term Call options overnight and Thursdays going into Fridays are the worst days to do this. It's also a market where traders are accustom to buying on the dips. There are no gaurantees that this stock will go up on the opening however it is a strong stock as of late and the markets might reverse upwards on the opening. Let's wait to see if I am right. An 8:20 a.m. premarket look the following morning. The share pric...

Boeing and Caterpillar on Jan 6th With the DJI up 700 Points.

First some background information. The three and one year charts on Boeing and Caterpillar.
Now the Caterpillar three and one year chart.
Both stocks have had amazing upward moves in the last ninety days. That means playing Calls correct? Look at Friday's Call option action. First Boeing.
The 205 Calls surged ten fold on the day. Now Caterpillar.
The 245 Calls also surged upwards.
Another ten fold increase. With the Caterpillar Calls above one could have purchased ten contracts at $300.00 and sold out at $4,900.00. Let's now look at the one day chart to see how this would be possible.
Buying into this position around 9:45 a.m. in hindsight was the time to get in.
The following few points might better put all of this into perspective. 1) Commenting on past events of what has just happened is not that difficult to do. It's like going to a rocket launch and describing what just happened. The compelling reason I write about situations like this is because they do happen. Boeing and Caterpillar, both strong stocks in recent times do sometimes charge up on Fridays and if your willing to throw some money into Call options on the very day they expire you sometimes can be handsomely rewarded. 2) What are the odds Of Boeing or Caterpillar going up eight dollars in one day? I would guess about ten times a year. What are the odds of a slight morning decline before a rebound back up on one of these days? I would say eight out ten times. What we witnessed wasn't that abnormal. It's a mix of playing the strenght of the markets and a stock in a strong short term uptrend. 3) Friday morning option trading on options that expire that day is a game very few play for obvious reasons but it is also a game some option players specialize in. 4) One techique option players sometimes use is to buy into option positions just before the close of the markets on Thursday and sell into the strenght of premarkets openings. It's a bet on the opening higher. Are tenfold option price increases exclusive to stocks like Boeing and Caterpillar? Not really. Look at Tesla on Friday. The same thing happened.
Take note. Over 65,000 option contracts traded in the series shown in one day. Profits potentially made could help pay for new Telsa cars. Trading in one day options isn't really a secret.

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