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Costco And Dangerous Fruit . It Was Like Robbing A Bank

Let's zoom in on a dangerous Friday afternoon option trading situation. Do you want to try and rob a bank? Look at this chart. It's zig-zagging and it's Costco is down $2.02 a 1:42 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. It's one week options on it that expire at 4.00 p.m. actually expire at 3.00 p.m. for retail traders. Might it jump a couple of dollars or more in the next 78 minutes? That's the bet to rob the bank. I like it. Past blogs have talking about Costco moving $25.00 and $35.00 dollars in one day. If your ahead of the game from trading all week you can afford to explore this situation. Here now at 1:40 p.m. are it's three series of "out-of-the-money series of Calls". ...................................................... .......................................................................... So what ended up happening? Costco exploded upwards. I will now only show you one of these series of Calls and how they were trading at 3:00 p.m. which was th...
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Boeing Calls Going Into a Friday Morning After dropping $4.77 on a Thursday.

I tracked the action on the 190 Boing Calls all week and watched the stock surge on Monday and Tuesday. Read my recent blogs. I cautioned that the action could change direction mid-week. It did. Trading Monday and Tuesday Calls... that seemed to work but on a Wednesday they all lost speed. Here now is it's one, five and thirty day charts.
Note it flirted with the $199.50 range. Now look at this chart. It helps to create a different spin on things.
It's bouncing back up and look at how the 210 Calls we have being watching all week closed out the day. They closed at $2.08.
Is $2.08 a good price? Well consider this. These same Calls closed the day before at $9.75. Yes Boeing can bounce big if and when it decides to bounce. Are the Call options now playable with only one day to go? Given all that has recently happened I would say STAY AWAY. Why tie up money hoping for a one day blip? The charts now show that it could go either way. Looking for rebounds on a falling stock on a Friday morning is to rich an exercise for most traders. Now for a premarket opening news release.
Boeing is soon going to have a quarterly earnings report coming out. News like this is an unwelcome suprise.

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