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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...

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

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 high as $4.41. Now a look at it's closing one day chart.
By noon the stock was back up to $240.00 making the options impossible to trade successfully for the rest of the afternoon. ** From past experience what I have learned is that you can only successfully trade Friday afternoon Calls on Tesla on strong days when the stock is up six or eight or ten dollars by noon. Those days sometimes happened quite frequently a few years back. Some trader's use Tesla as their "go-to" option trading vehicle because of it's known volatility. I will try and do a few more "Friday Tesla Morning Trading Blogs" going forward.

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