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Costco. It's Short Term Options

 Options on stocks in the $1,000  range often move  50%  or more in only a matter of  minutes on the opening on Wednesday and Thursday's . The trick is to  anticipate correctly which way the markets are going to move. That's a fools game you might say? Yes and no. It may not be a game you ever play but it might be something to consider to put in your bag of tricks when you are on a role. One thousand dollar stocks sometimes move five, ten or fifteen dollars on the day. If you have profits it's best to take them quickly. Costco is a prime example of that. Let's look at this mornings action. First it's five day and one day charts. Tuesday's trading was kind of choppy. Might it drop on the opening tomorrow? Here is a look at where the 1,035 series of Puts closed that expire this Friday. They closed at $8.50. It looks like Costco cycled up about five times yesterday. Given a weak market opening doesn't it stand to reason a three or four or five dollar will be i...

"Out-of-the-Money" Call Options on Boeing With One Day to Go

Who likes trading options that expire that day? Let's move forward. First here is the five day chart of Boeing prior to it's Friday morning opening.
It looks like it could bounce. Part two, here is what I did. Look at times I got in.
In at 9:32.34 a.m. at thirty-two dollars each on four contracts and out at 9:43.07 a.m. at sixty-nine dollars each and also in at 9:34 a.m. at forty dollars each on two contracts and out 9:44 a.m. at seventy nine dollars.
These are ten minute trades picking off doubles in price. Here is a screen shot of how Boeing was trading during this particular period of time. I caught part of a one dollar early morning move up holding "out-of-the-Money" Calls. the ones that move the most percentage wise when they only have about six hours of trading time left in them. That is something to study.
Had I waited another ten minutes to get out I would of had given up all of my profits and had I held on to these positions until the end of the day I would have lost everything. Here is a one day chart on how Boeing traded.
Here is a look at how this series of Calls, the 212.50 Calls traded on the day. Eighty Four dollars was the high of the day.
The real winners in this secenaro were the 207.50 Puts. That's a different story which would have taken guts to play.
Movements like this happen every Friday.

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