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Exxon And Why You are Just As Smart As Me On This One.

 Trying to understand why oil prices fluctuate is a job in itself. Look at how Exxon  Mobile is trading. Here is your chance to play with the big boys in some of the most exciting option markets that we have had in a long time. Look at how Exxon  has traded in the last 30 days. These are big swings in a relatively short period of time. That's what helps in keeping the interest in playing options on Exxon so high. Now this. A five day chart on the morning on June 9th, a Monday. Look at the spike it had. Remember in my last blog I showed a spike in Deere only to watch a sell off two days later Now another five day chart, this time Exxon on Tuesday June 10th  around 2:45 .p.m. Look at how the stock is stepping up. Could it drop down to $104.50?  The chart shows that it could. I like Puts more than I like Calls in general because for lack of better words they are more unpredictable. Now this, a look at yesterday's action. We are looking at the 105 Puts. This shows h...
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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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