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Snowflake Part Two : Thursday Overnight Position Going Into The Final Day Of An Options Life Are Not My Cup Of Tea Unless It Is Perhaps Tesla

The 172.50 series of options on this stock will expire tomorrrow. Today is a Thursday. The first printout shows a bit of a struggle on the opening in the first nine minutes of trading and a return to price it closed at in the previous session. (It did have a nice rally on the previous day then to only give it up). Could it rally again this morning? Now the second printout below the following paragraph shows the high volume of trading pouring into this series of Calls just after the opening. These high volumes of trading shown below happened in the five minutes and twenty one seconds of the trading session. Traders bought in on a slight dip looking for a reversal. Good for them. Are these traders hoping to be out at a profit in the next fifteen or thirty minutes? Yes. Get in and get out. Catch a profit as the stock is deciding which way it will go. It's early in the morning trading session and the volume of trading is always the highest in the first and in the last hour of trading....

Options on Five and Ten Dollar Stocks Part 3 or 4 or 5

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Nio once again. The stock is on fire. Here is it's five and thirty day charts. Now here is last Friday's one day look at one series of it's Call options. On Thursday they closed at .07 (seven cents) and on Fridays close .52 (fifty two cents). To difficult to trade you might say. Well it's happened before in the recent past. Now Xpeng. ............ These are the 12 series of Calls which closed at $.16 on the previous day. These are dangerous options to play. Other EV stocks are also hot. Now this.**** Nio in the premarket Monday morning Sept. 30th. Another huge move upwards. *** There is talk that short sellers are covering their short positions on Chinese stocks. That might explain part of this action. It all has to do with currency reforms.

Deere - Tricks The Option Makers Engage In.

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We hear these banterings all the time. Now here is how the Deere $407.50 series of Call options traded yesterday on a day when the stock was down. The volume of trading on this particular series of Call options was light and the options were down 50%. Not many retail players play options on this stock. Here is it's one day chart. It closed strong. So what did I do at 3:51:30 p.m.? The print is light and difficult to read but I says I paid $248.00 U.S. dollars for one option contract. I bought one slightly "just- out-of-the-money" Call option which expires in two days time. Wednesday going into Thursday morning's trading sessions can be profitable if the markets decide to uptick and this time we are looking at options that just dropped 50% in one day. So what happened? Here is where it starts to get interesting. There is something called premarkert trading. If you're watching the market about an hour before it opens you can see quotes showing the stocks then ...

Caterpillar Jumps. Where Does That Leave Option Traders?

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, Now this. Now a strange remark "heard-on-the-street". Now a year-to date Caterpillar chart. Now here are two snippents of information taken from a Aug 7th blog on Caterpillar. These comments were part of a second quarter earnings report. Now it's five day chart. Caterpillar is going up on no news. Will traders consider buying "out-of-the-money" next weeks Calls? Not many traders want to go this far out however we don't see an upward movement like this happening very often. Now look at how this series of Calls traded the next day. Now a Thursday closing reading on these same Calls. What do you see? Talk about action. Will Caterpillar jump again tomorrow?

Tesla Puts With One Day To Go - This Time After A Trading Session Where Tesla Was Up More Than $15.00 On The Day

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So, here they are nine seconds into the Friday morning trading session. If you wait two minutes to get into the action the dynamics of the situation may look considerably different. At this particluar junction if you have the guts to get in it's best to do it "at market". The bid and ask are tight. Now 1.5 hours later. As a trader wouldn't it seem like a good time to get out? It is afterall a Friday and there is always be more opportunities next week? Now look at it's five day chart. Are you able to see the massive rally of about $15.00 on Thursday on the news of interest rate cuts? Call option traders trading Tesla would had a grin on their faces. Do you think it will drop more? To better answer that question here is one indicator as to what the markets are doing. Now let's skip ahead and see the final readings. So a morning exiting was the correct call to make. At 11:00 a.m. these Puts were trading for $2.80 and another twenty minutes later they went as...

Boeing Is On Strike

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So what's going to happen? Well this week the stock got dragged down but what's going to happen next week and the week after? Here is it's 30 day chart. Here now are two series of Call options, the first for next Friday and the second one for the week after that. ..........

Boeing - A One Day Chart That I Now Like / Boeing and Deere

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Here is is. Why do I like this chart? It spiked on high volume in the morning and volume came into it on the close. So here is what I did. If you see charts like this you could be also be doing this. On a cautionary note Boeing has hit a rough patch as of late but this trade might be good for a one dollar profit. If it happens take the money and run. If you miss a four dollar move to the upside so what. Here is a fill at 3:37 p.m. on a Tuesday which I could have got for less a few minutes later. I bought one contract for $2.01 or two hundred and one dollars. Here is Boeing's five day chart of torture. What might happen? Could it stumble on the morning trying to get fresh legs? Maybe. Here it is at noon the next day. Here is what I did. (I am trying to show first time option traders the sizes of trades they can do). Remember I said that I got in at 201.00? A $2.42 price happened at 11:12 a.m. which was the time when I got out. It's American money. (Look at the chart and see h...