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Tesla Calls On A Friday That Expire On Monday

It's the same topic I posted last Friday. Today is Independence Day and the markets are closed. For this reason we can't really talk about mimicking last last Friday's trading. Here is it's five day chart. As you can see Tesla dropped on Thursday. Here is a look at how one series of Telsa's Puts traded on Thursday. Now look at the pricing on this one series of "slightly-out-of-the-money" Tesla Calls as of Thursday's close. These Calls would let you be in all of Monday's trading action. Is the price of $4.60 a contract a fair price? Well consider these two points. One day swings in stocks in general in the $400.00 price range can be significant. This five day chart of Tesla below shows you how it jumped $32.13 last Monday! The second point is that long weekends (three full days of no market trading) are know to cause market resets. Stocks like Exxon can get whipped around. That's what makes the pricings on all options now so difficult to gau...

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I see this companies electric vehicles on the road and I have to admit they offer a fantastic ten year warranty. Are they reckless in making such a offer when they have no track history? Might not high servicing costs come back to bite them further down the road? Look at how the stock jumped this week on this good news. While high production increases are only one part of a companies story they are encouraging to their shareholders. Visit there website and learn about their dealership network. The waiting game begins to hear about their next earning's report. Now look at these three charts. Back on Sept. 6th I wrote a blog on "Nio", a chinese electric car company. Here is it's chart that I showed in that blog. It shows Nio jumping 25% in one week. Now let's look at it's three month chart. Recently I did some blogs on trading options in the five dollar range. The scary part is we have seen how other stocks in this space are down. Look at these four. None...