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What A Week For Market Swings. This Time Boeing

My last two blogs have focused on options expiring on Mondays and Wednesdays. This blog on a Thursday deals with options that expire tomorrow on Friday. AS A GENERAL RULE PURCHASING CALLS ON A THURSDAY MORNING THAT EXPIRE THE VERY NEXT DAY IS NOT A SMART MOVE TO MAKE. We have witnessed huge daily price swings this week where profits from option trading can be made in a matter of hours. Now let's look at Boeing's morning action. Sometimes when you see charts like this and if you're coming off a streak of three or four profitable trades it's best to jump in hoping for a reversal to the upside and ask questions later. Especially when the D.J.I.A is strongly up in price as it was. I quickly looked around and couldn't find any news to account for this price drop. Trumph was in China and we later learned that there was talk of China ordering 200 more of Boeing's new airplanes. Talk like this is only talk. Now this at 9:51 a.m.. The interest in this particular series...

A Blogging Website About Caterpillar

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Ok. I am guilty of falling asleep at the switch. Caterpillar had great earning report this morning and the stock tanked on the opening. Here is it's five and one day chart. Now the highlights of the report. So now what do I want to show. How the different series of Call options traded. Notice the volumes in the 200 and 202.50 Calls. Next to no volume. Notice the rewards on the higher priced "out-of-the-money" Calls. Big rewards. In the ninety minutes of trading this morning the stock was off slightly. What an opportunity missed!