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Late To The Party Option Players - Disney

Can late to the party option traders make money? It's something to consider? These Call options expire this Friday. There was news on it before the opening today. The second chart below a few minutes later shows it hanging tough. At 10:01 a.m. we now checking out the Puts. The bid and ask on the Puts are very tight. That also makes us ask what happened to the Disney 101 Calls that we first looked at? Here is what the chart now looks like. More Call option players have jumped in to play the upside that the downside. Might one do a spread and try to play it both ways hoping for a breakout either way? That's an option to consider. Disney has being a dog of a stock now for a year so might some profit taking set in? How is Disney going to pay for another theme park? With that on their plates forget any share buy back programs. They are taking on new risks in a period of global uncertainity. Are late to the party option traders best just to stay away from this unexpected situ...

Walmart. Does Five Days Buy You Enough Time?

Let's set the stage.
A five day chart and the current bid and ask on an "in-the-money" Call option by $.31 cents.
Notice the tight bid and ask. That's a good thing. Now this morning's early trading.
Light open interest in this series and light to moderate morning trading in these series on the opening. Would I want to hold onto a position like this for the entire week? It's kind of dangerous because at any moment an analysis could come out with a comment about "Christmas Retail Sales". It's something I would get into with the hopes of getting out of on the day. Imagine, people living south of the border that can find brokerages that don't charge fees on trading. In that environment nimble option traders can have a heyday playing options like this with a tight "bid-and-ask". Let's watch this one for a day and see what happens. Now this.
Thirty nine minutes later the stock is up twenty-two cents. What's nice about five day options is that time is not as much of a factor compared to trading options with only, one, two or three days of life left in them. Here we are now at 11:50 a.m. Call me chicken. I would get out. It's 11:50 a.m. It was a good ride with no hiccups. It doesn't always happen that way. Take a profit and run.
The end. Well not really the end. Here is how these Call options closed the day.They did actually hit a high or $2.02.00.

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