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Boing Going Into A Friday

Let's start with the late Thursday afternoon activity. This is at 3:40 p.m.. The one bump upwards today augurs well for tomorrow. Here are two series of it's Calls which expire tomorrow. First the 217.50 Calls at 3:44 p.m. .................. .........................Now the $215.00 Calls. Now let's look at how they closed the day and how much more trading happened in them after the 3:40 p.m. time period. First the 217.50 Calls. 171 contracts were added and 887 of the 220 contracts were added. Now the 215 Calls. Let's watch the action on the opening. Here also is Boeing's five day chart. * Boeing jumps overnight..

The D.J.I.A Drops over 1,000 Points on The Day

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Yet some lucky option trader's could have made money buying Telsa Calls. Bumpy markets offer Option traders some of the best times to make money. How have Caterpillar, Boeing and Deere done in the last five days? All three of these stocks offered Call option players decent returns if the bought in just after the opening this morning a Monday. To be continued.

Roku And It's 2nd Quarter Earning Report

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Let's start with the time period of Thursday morning with an earning's report coming out after the closing bell. Look at how crazy expensive these three series of Call options are. They are the Roku "out-of-the-money" Call options that expire tomorrow. The volume in them is not all that crazy but if I owned the stock I would be tempted to sell the Calls against my position and hope they would expire worthless. Tomorrow is Friday August 2nd. ...... ....... Why pay so much? Why pay $4.05 for a Call with a striking price of "58" with one trading day to go in the contract? The stock would have to jump four dollars just to get your money back? Talk about stupid? Yet then again Netflix, a company also in a similiar space sometimes moves like ten dollars in one day. Here now is a look at what happened by showing tomorrow's five day chart. Down $2.19 on the day to $53.14 with the DJIA down over 600 points. Say goodbye to those Calls if you ever bought in. N...