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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...

Ford Puts - sometimes they will surprise!

Back to an old friend. This blog is about why trading stock options on the stock "Ford Motors" can suprise. It's also about trading options I call "penny like options". In this instance I am trading options priced at twelve cents. For first time readers that really means $12.00. Now, a one day and five day chart on Ford. Can you see how volatile the stock is as of late?
Now the five day.
Now a look at it's trading in the morning today up until 11:30 a.m..
Now here is my trading experience on the day.
20 contracts in at 10:05 a.m. at $12.00 each and out at 10:38 a.m. for $18.00 each. That's six dollars profit a contract. It all happened very quickly. Are you able to look at the chart above and see how the chart dipped during that period of time? If you don't play options and want to don't start by making trades like this. Well then again some traders only only make trades like this. It's not uncommon to see a $300.00 trade quicky go to $3,000. It's Ford. Times are changing and Ford feels it most. This leads to yet another point. Being a trader is not everyones cup of tea. Ford options are just something that most people would not want to be thinking about. Pity. ***** Yet another example. This time on a Thursday with one hour and eight minutes to go in the trading session. Take a minute and try to figure out what is happening.
Ford is up .12 cents on the day. Think of what would happen if it ever gave up this gain by the end of the day or on tomorrow's opening. Welcome to trading Ford options. *** Here they are seven minutes into the Friday morning trading session. Yes there was a profit to be made.

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