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You're Not Playing Tesla, You're Playing The Markets. Get Use To It.

The markets crashes on Monday morning after a disastrous friday afternoon sell off. The D.J.I.A. was down last week 1.1% on the week, the largest weekly decline since November. My advise is to take a vacation from option trading for a week or so. Then there is Tesla. Tesla rebounded today, a Monday after dropping a chunk in the first forty five minutes of trading. But wait, at 10:30 a.m. most market observers were congratulating themselves for sitting on the sidelines. Now this, here is how the 382.50 Tesla Calls traded on the day. I will do a follow up on this blog tomorrow and show you the closing interest at the end of the day. If it is very low, which I suspect it will be, it will further illustrate my point as to how Tesla can be a good interday trading vehicle. Now this. Exxon also dropped in price at 10:30 a.m. and dropped again at the close. Look at how the 150 Calls closed on the day. Flip a coin, it could go either way. If you look at my past blogs on Exxon in the last 3...

Tesla And The Play Of The Week - An Easy Read.

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Here is Telsa's five day chart. Can you see how it spiked to the upside on Friday morning before it tanked? Can you see how as the day progressed it dipped down to the support level of the $210.00 range? Here is its one day chart. Now this. Lucky in all this action are all those individuals who purchased one day Puts on Telsa in the first few minutes of trading. Look at how these Puts reacted. The lows of the day happened in the first few minutes of trading. Look at the pecentage gains. In the last example a $1.00 option went to $190.00 in one day. Catching one trade like this could make up for twenty bad trades. What's all this talk of Ai trading? Moves like this could blow up the exchanges if thousand of trading platforms could recognize this could happen. This was one of the best option trading opportunities of the year.