CAT Puts

Pfizer is somewhat range bound. In my blog yesterday I gave the example of how options it's short term options doubled in price on the opening. That event was a rarity and I referred to these options as being "suicide" options. It's options are super sensitive to any small changes in the stock's price. Here is Pfizer's "year-to-date" chart. It gets worse than that. Did you know that the Pfizer stock is down over 50% in the last three years? It doesn't help much to have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the scene. In spite of these circumstances here is a statement one of their companies spokespersons was recently brave enough to say. Now look at this chart. Do you ever think it's going to break above the twenty six dollar price level by January 16th 2026? This Call last traded at $.56 or fifty six dollars. Maybe a one year chart would be better to look at than a "year-to-date" chart. Should we listening to what that Pfizer spokesperon is...

Do you want to split hairs, meaning do you want to chase the most miniscule of moves in a stock's price? With the way options are structured on Pfizer you can. Look at this five day chart on Pfizer and look at this particular Call option series. These are the 24 series of Calls that expire this Friday. Why do I think these Calls offer good value? Two reasons, the first being that this stock trades on high volumes. As as of 3:50 p.m. today the stock has traded in excess of 39.6 million shares. I take comfort in this number. With this much volume I would think that the option makers would have less power and less desire to control any short term directional moves that this stock has. The second reason I like these options is that they trade in one dollar increments. I like that. In my blogs about Walmart I mention the same thing. In this case we now have a "Bid" of .22 and an "Ask" .25 with a high on the day of .42. Purchase these options in quanties of 20, 30, ...

Here is the stock's one week chart. Now here are it's January 6th 2026 Calls. Now here are the same Calls as reported in a blog I did on this company back on September 8th. This illustrates the power of options on low priced stocks in this price range. Dragonfly is a Canadian company. Do your own homework. Here is how some other drone stocks are opening on Monday morning. Now this an hour into Monday's trading session. Stocks in this sector can change like the wind.

Let's zoom in on a dangerous Friday afternoon option trading situation. Do you want to try and rob a bank? Look at this chart. It's zig-zagging and it's Costco is down $2.02 a 1:42 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. It's one week options on it that expire at 4.00 p.m. actually expire at 3.00 p.m. for retail traders. Might it jump a couple of dollars or more in the next 78 minutes? That's the bet to rob the bank. I like it. Past blogs have talking about Costco moving $25.00 and $35.00 dollars in one day. If your ahead of the game from trading all week you can afford to explore this situation. Here now at 1:40 p.m. are it's three series of "out-of-the-money series of Calls". ...................................................... .......................................................................... So what ended up happening? Costco reained the 42.00 it lost and shot up another $4.00. I will now only show you one of these series of Calls and how they wer...

When you see this chart you will understand what this game is. Guess which way Boeing is going to trade tomorrow. It's not as simple as you might think. Here are it's Calls on the closing today which will be expiring tomorrow. Notice the open position number, 226 Calls. It's really nothing. The chart looks ugly. Now look the Puts. The open interest number is much greater. What's that all about. Is it the anticipation of a weak opening? Now this, one possible reason why it dropped today. There was news of the new 777X jet falling behind schedule. Does that influence your decision? It's a tough call. Might one strategy be to buy in a minute or two after the opening and trade in the opposite direction of which way the stock is moving? That's what some option players would be instinctively doing. Some Telsa Call option players would have done well on the day today using that strategy. It's going to be super interesting watching the way this event unfolds tom...

In my last blog I said don't do that. The Calls on Tesla that we first started to talk about on Monday afternoon went sideways to down on Tuesday and the doubled on Wednesday. I said take your profits. Just be happy and get out. Was I wrong in my call? Well yes and no. Look at how Tesla traded on Thursday morning. . It closed on Wednesday at $349.57, opened Thursday at $350.22 and dropped to $348.52 before taking off upwards. So Tesla stuttered on the opening. Anyone buying a Thursday morning Call just after the opening (that expires the next day on Friday) would have made a lot of money. (Don't trade on my advise). I just want to wake my readers up to the concept of "One week Options". Now look at it's ten year chart. Will it break new highs shortly? Now Friday. Look at how the 335 Calls closed. * When we first started looking at the 335 Calls back on September 8th they were at $380.00 a contract! They closed today at $6,090. Tesla is on fire. Some of the ...

Two stocks and the activity on their Put options today. Only 17 option contracts traded on them today. Traders are afraid to trade them. Wednesdays are often the best days of the week for market reversals. The second stock is one I also recently talked about, Netflix. Here is today's action. The stock is down however if you look at the chart the drop is barely noticeable. Or said differently, price changes like this are a near regular occurance.Yes there was light to moderate trading in this series of slightly "out-of-the-money" Puts. * The concept of playing short term options on stocks priced in this high price range is best suited for day trading only. It is advised traders do not hold onto overnight positions to avoid the risk of getting caught on the wrong side of a trade. That plus the time value element of the equation becomes more of a worry, with in this case only two day to go in the life of these options. Getting stuck going the wrong way will be fatal. Wedne...

Here is it's five day chart and a look at what the "just-slightly-out-of-th-money-call" options are trading at. It's a Tuesday. Now this, it keeps dropping. Now a 10:49 a.m. update. The stock has rebounded $1.00 Notice the asking price has jumped upwards. At 11:00 a.m. it is starting to slip again. Do you see this time how quickly the bid and ask declined? Here now is the stocks five day chart. What do I think? Since the stock had a nice jump yesterday I think it might rebound in the next few hours. Now might be a good time to jump in looking for an upward move. That's my read on things. Let's see what happens. It's still early in the week. Now here we are at 11:30 a.m. or 38 minutes later. Now this six minutes later? Can you see how someone got excited about a rebound and bought in at $5.10? Now this at 1:03 p.m. Deere did come back at the end of the day. The trick in this exercise is to find the low of the day.