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NIO Could This Be The Real Thing?

Do you know the company? The stock first came to the DJIA back in 2018 at $6.25 a share and no it doesn't pay dividends. It took off. Here is it's share pricings dating back to when it first got listed. A lot of people got burned. Here was an overseas company boasting of having the fastest electric car in the world. Zoom went the stock and then it crashed. Now this. Today it had news. A quarterly earnings report and for the first time it turned a profit. That was a suprise.The new question is can they continue to do this or was this event just a splash in the pan? Look what happened this morning. This is a five day chart. Look at these 9:46 a.m. Call options and the 4:00 p.m. options. ... So this is a situation where you can buy in after the release of good news and still get out in the day at a profit. Imagine if this news came out on Thursday afternoon just after the closing bell? Inexpensive little soon to expire "one-day" Call options would shoot to the moon....

A Fireside Chat - One Year Options and Thirty Day Options. Which is Better?

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Some say to think small, not big. Trying to play Disney options is thinking big. It is a stock slightly out of favor. If we start with it's a three year chart, we will see it is down by about 50% over that period of time. Now it's one year chart. If the stock can break 110 in early 2024 the sky is the limit. It does have a lot of moving parts so anything could happen. Look at these Calls options one year out. One year in options buys a lot of time.They look reasonable. If the stock ever inched up to the $105.00 price level in the three or four months these options would jump up in price by about 50%. Even more if they had really good news. Yet it's the "what-if" aspect of the equation that castes such a trade in doubt. "What if" stories just don't cut it. There are to many variables in play. Then again, why are we even thinking of long-term Call options after a December's rally? Let's switch gears. If consumers are out spending for X-ma...