Towards Understanding Tesla Calls.
First, forget everything you know about Tesla's current state of operational history. Forget their news about their new factory in Germany, their new models and how many kids a fifty four year old fellow named Elon Musk has. Focus on the moment. In this case it's a Thursday afternooon and we are looking at options on Tesla it that expire the very next day. The interesting thing in this situation is that we are catching Tesla trading flat on the day. It has maintained for the last 2.5 hours a slight predisposition to the upside. Now this as we approach 1:00 p.m.. We find a price of $4.70 for the Call option shown above. These Calls are just slightly "in-the-money" and expire the next day. Things could change even before the end of the day. It takes big money to buy in and the risk is high. I get it. The Puts will also cost you chunk of money. It's Tesla and you are trading with some of the ...
