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Costco. It's Short Term Options

 Options on stocks in the $1,000  range often move  50%  or more in only a matter of  minutes on the opening on Wednesday and Thursday's . The trick is to  anticipate correctly which way the markets are going to move. That's a fools game you might say? Yes and no. It may not be a game you ever play but it might be something to consider to put in your bag of tricks when you are on a role. One thousand dollar stocks sometimes move five, ten or fifteen dollars on the day. If you have profits it's best to take them quickly. Costco is a prime example of that. Let's look at this mornings action. First it's five day and one day charts. Tuesday's trading was kind of choppy. Might it drop on the opening tomorrow? Here is a look at where the 1,035 series of Puts closed that expire this Friday. They closed at $8.50. It looks like Costco cycled up about five times yesterday. Given a weak market opening doesn't it stand to reason a three or four or five dollar will be i...

Cat Puts or Calls - Going Into A Friday Morning.

First, a one day chart of Caterpillar on March 4th.
Now a March 7th five day chart. Can you see how it jumped in the last two days?
Now these closing readings on Thursday.
The above chart shows how the calls traded on the day and below the Puts.
Little volume and low open interest numbers. The real time to be watching these positions wil be thirty minutes into tomorrow's action looking for a reversal. Let's continue. Its Friday morning. Here we have a 9:46 a.m. printout of the 300 series Caterpillar Calls.
Take your profits, go away and forget looking for a reversal. The open interest number indicator doesn't add up. The deadline to get out of option positions on a Friday is 3:30 p.m. Here is readout of how these Calls were trading at 3:08 p.m..
Anyone with the guts to play Puts on the day could have done extremely well. Getting in after 10:a.m. and out around 2:00 p.m..
It baffles me why more traders do not have opportunities like this on their radar screens. Where is all the AI trading? I don't see it here. *** A look at the 340 Calls on Caterpillar on the following Friday, March 15th. It's pretty much the same story. Plenty of action on Friday with a relatively low amount of option trading.

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