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What Happens When You Get Four Stocks All In The Same Sector Going Up In One Day On A Monday?

First of all it usually means something good is going to happen in the sector. It doesn't really matter what it is or why. This time it's in a sector we can call "used vehicle car sales". Some option traders trade exclusively in this sector as you sometimes see blocks of 20, 25 or 50 contracts trade at one time. Well, not so much as of late. It's big "retail-money" or trades made by wealthy individuals. Why spend millions of dollars building up a car dealership empire when you can follow and profit from what is happening in the industry just playing stocks and options on it in the right direction? That plus the advantage being able to take holidays when ever you want. Here they are. 1) NOW HERE IS A CHART OF CARVANNA. I have done recent blogs on this one. Here is it's five day chart. Is everyone hoping for interest rates cuts? (Jerome-Powell-Jackson-Hole Annual Summit) to come later this week, just another speech by some old man). If rate cuts star...

Watch Boeing Jump On News

First some news as the markets opened. Horwmet Aerospace offered this sobering news.
Then good old Joe made this statement.
Now the opening chart.
When I see opening charts like this I always want to play it in the opposite direction. What was my take on all of this news. New contracts are great, people are flying again and ticket prices are up. It's all good but Boeing doesn't really need more deals and orders. They are still trying to get back on track. Would this morning bounce go away? I thought so, I jumped in on Puts.
In at 9:45 a.m., 9:48 a.m. and 9:50 a.m. . I was confident in what I was doing but the stock seemed to stay persistently high.
Then I got frustrated with how it was trading and bailed out.
I sold all four contracts at 10:42 a.m. at $2.61 per contract so I only made a touch. I was in this position for just under an hour and was starting to worry about a second wave of buying coming into this position.
This chart above illustrates how they jumped higher in price after I got out and the chart below shows how Boeing traded on the day.
In hindsight these Puts reached a high of $3.70 at 11:50 a.m. I also did a short chase of Boeing as it rebounded but once again didn't have the patience to stay with it. Here is what I did.
In at 11:51 a.m at $375.00 and out at 12:29 at $430.00. a period of time of 38 minutes. I left good money on the table. I went on to successfully trade Visa on the downside and got out of that position 3:59:21 p.m. The DJIA closed down 156 points on the day. Visa released this news after the markets opened this morning. It sounds ambitious but seems a touch risky.
* see my most recent blogs about playing Visa.

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