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A few years back the markets crashed when Russia invaded Ukraine. The front pages of newspapers around the world at that time showed people trying to escape cities which were heavily shelled. Our heart's sank. How could such atrocities be happening? Why were schools and hospitals targeted? War is evil. Guess what? With Trump acting as a new dictator the world once again has gone awry. It's scary that one old man with so much power can abuse the system. What does all of this mean for option traders? It means time to sit on the sidelines. Yes you can jump in playing rebounds and catch some nice short term directional moves. You are basically trading against computers. Why not just sit it out and chill? Everything is amuck. Why be trying to make hero trades? Ironically enough some traders are being drawn into this action. Look at this chart. While its difficult to see because of a "pop-up" on the screen "Netflix rebounded over ten dollars a share after reboundin...
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Tesla Going Down In Stock Price Is The New Theme

Ok, so like Barron's did an article over the weekend saying that Tesla could be trading down to $100.00 and U-Tube videos are talking about the rise of BYD. Fisker is going out of business and Ford in Canada is delayed their shift to going electric by a couple of years in one of their plants. Norway is up to 83% electric or some crazy number like that. What to think? Well, weekends often serve as times of "resets". The result is the "change-of-thinkings" in what is happening in the global EV space over the last 48 hour period of time which is reflected in the opening price of the Telsa stock on a Monday morning. Here now is a look at how the Telsa stock is trading at 8:45 a.m. in the premarkets. It is difficult to read clearly but the stock is up about four dollars.
A second stock to watch for weekend changes in sentiment is Boeing. Somewhere is a previous blog I gave an example of how I traded out of a Call option position on a Monday morning on an opening bounce. Here is how Boeing today at 8:50 a.m. is trading in the premarkets. Once again it is difficult to read but the stock is down just over $3.00 a share.
Often times it closes up or down three, four or five dollars which can make for profitable short term option trades. Now here is how Telsa was trading at 9:53 a.m. on Monday morning April 8th. It's up like $8.00
**One final caveat. Premarket bids and asks can change on a dime with most of the changes likely to happen five or ten minutes prior to the opening. ***Friday mornings are the one day of the week where premarket directional changes are most evident.

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