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Exxon And Tesla One Week Options

Exxon's five day chart is obviously going in one direction. Last Friday was a strong day for the markets and Exxon jumped up even more. Here we are now on a Monday morning and this week's Call and Put options are priced equally. Which one is going to win? As usual, there is more interest in the Calls than in the Puts. Let's also look at what might happen with Tesla this week. Oct 10th is now touted as being a "make or break day" for Tesla as it will be their "Robo-Taxi-Day". I am not a big fan of trying to play Tesla options with one week to go because their premiums are so expensive. As for Exxon, I would be more inclined to follow the direction of it's recent trend. Let's watch and see what happens. To be continued. 1) Obsevation #1 on a Monday morning. Look at this. Early into the morning trading the Puts have dropped down from the $1.80 level. Can you see how tight the "bids" and "asks" are. This helps to make them pl
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McDonald's Is Now Near You

People living in brand new subdivisions can probably bike to one. Their stock has shined over the last six months with a strategy of focusing on building more outlets in cities in North America that are growing. Simple stuff. Watch what happened yesterday on the release of their earning reports. Here is a 10:18 a.m. chart.
Pretty crazy stuff stuff right?. Now let me make one observation. At 9:30.59 a.m. the stock stopped falling. It was at $285.99. It was down something like ten dollars. It's funny how that much damage could happen in 59 seconds. For some reason that's when it's magical fall came to an abrupt end. Then at 9:33.59 a.m. the stock ended a mini-rally back up in the opposite direction. It moved up to $290.73. That wss an increase of $4.74 in 180 seconds! Notice the.99 second mark was part of the equation again. Then it sold off again. You can see that action on the chart. Doesn't it stand to reason that the .99 second mark is a trigger point for inflections? Let me digress for only a few seconds. I have a good friend who once worked on a ship in the Altantic ocean a number of years ago. The ship was installing fiber optic cable on the floor of the ocean. Why? Well, one north Americian company in the currency trading business wanted to receive data from overseas a few seconds faster than its competition to help make more informed trading decisons. I am not making this stuff up. How much faster it would be I don't know. The point is, big money was spent on the massive endeavour of laying new cable on a private line to gain an advantage. Now back to my observation of option contracts turning on a dime at the .99 second mark. Artificial intelligence and computer generated trading. The world of option trading is full of such trickery with the advantage going to the house. Yet there are cracks in their systems. This obviously is one of them as more people like me clue in on these kinds of observations. The really scary part now is that these artificial intelligence platforms will have to turn inwards and expend energies fighting with each other in this race to the top. For the time being this .99 mark is all you should be aware of. If I see it changing I will let you know. Now a trade.
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Mcdonalds came back up the following day.

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