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Late To The Party Option Players - Disney

Can late to the party option traders make money? It's something to consider? These Call options expire this Friday. There was news on it before the opening today. The second chart below a few minutes later shows it hanging tough. At 10:01 a.m. we now checking out the Puts. The bid and ask on the Puts are very tight. That also makes us ask what happened to the Disney 101 Calls that we first looked at? Here is what the chart now looks like. More Call option players have jumped in to play the upside that the downside. Might one do a spread and try to play it both ways hoping for a breakout either way? That's an option to consider. Disney has being a dog of a stock now for a year so might some profit taking set in? How is Disney going to pay for another theme park? With that on their plates forget any share buy back programs. They are taking on new risks in a period of global uncertainity. Are late to the party option traders best just to stay away from this unexpected situ...
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January Blues and News on Taiga- The Opportunity to Tap Into 90 Dealerships

Here is the list of auto stocks I watch. All are down this morning.
It's difficult to think about playing the upside. It's also difficult to play the downside. Caterpillar is struggling. It dropped today. Analyst are always busy looking in their rear view mirrors to explain what is happening. They now say that Caterpillar is exposed to the slowdown in China. That's not really a fair assessment of the overall big picture. It recently had a nice run up.
Boeing is entering into a cup formation.
Moderna was $86.00 back at Christmas and jumped to $115.00 on Jan 8th only now to settle back down again to $96.00.
Then there is Nio an Ev maker. They are expanding their sales into Europe. I often talk about this stock as it trades in very high volumes and has a huge following . A few years back it traded five times higher in price than it does now. It's product line is now much improved. The stock however is now crashing. There seems to be to much focus on monthly production numbers.
Nothing is being spared in this massive grubbing and jumping in now hoping for the start of a reversal doesn't seem to be a smart approach. Times will however change. ****
Now news on Taiga. Electric watercraft. This will keep them busy.
Why isn't the stock jumping upwards in price? One reason is that the potential of these new orders will force this company to raise additional working capital. They seem burn through money quickly. That plus why are they trying to build two different product lines at the same time? Maybe they should focus on only one product. A few years back this stock was $10.00 per share and now when things seem to taking off it's down to $1.00. If the watercraft division takes off this company might have a bright future. As a general rule I don't like Quebec based companies. It's still very much a wait and see situation.

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