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Trying To Make Costco Options Impossible To Play That Expire In One Day.

This was a special situation. A quarterly earning report coming out on the eve of one day options. With five days in every trading week the odds of that situation happening are only like twenty percent.  Some companies, more in tune with the potential for market manipulations will avoid earning report releases on Thursday afternoons for this very  reason. For some option players the event of  having one day options reacting to quarterly earning reports is like waiting for Christmas morning. Especially on stocks in the $1,000 dollar range. First the Puts on a Thursday morning at 9:52 a.m.. These are Puts which are $9.75 "out-of-the-money" with one day of trading life to go before they expire. Look at how crazy expensive they are. The stock would have to drop $21.00 in Thursday and Fridays trading just to break even. Earning reports will be coming out at 5:00 p.m. (on a Thursday - today) which is after the market closes. The fireworks will start in the next morning when the...

A 2024 Post. So An Analyst Jump Started The Year.

It's the first trading session of the year and the x-mas chatter is that the world is still in a mess, consumers are overextended, rents might be softening and EV sales are hitting a rough patch. So what's the analyst jump start I am talking about?
This isn't the first time it has jumped in a while. Look at this one day jump in mid December a few years ago.
The stock also did jump from $15.92 on Sept 1st 2019 to $384.86 on Sept 1st 2021. Now look at the price of the 115 puts for this friday. The time of this reading was 1:48 p.m. after the morning jump was over.
So this analyst is really reporting nothing new and simple playing the odds of getting recognized for an early year claim, knowing that the media is starving for news. Yet trying to play the downside on news that is not really news is a tough way to start the year. There are better things to be watching. (See my last's weeks blog on Costco falling). Now see how this series of Puts closed out the day.
Let's see what happens next. It dropped again the following morning. It will not drop forever. Time to move on to something different. Now note the open interest as of yesterdays close. Read what it is. The answer is ONE. That is amazing! Just one. Then see below the number 353 which represents the closing open interest. Subtract this number from the number 1011 and that's the number of in and out contracts traded on the day. Day traders, true to their name were in and out, missing the sizeable drop in share price on the following morning. It all makes sense. Dine and dash.
It also makes me wonder how many insiders played the upside with advance knowledge of this upgrade coming. That is something the regulators should be jumping on.

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