CAT Puts

It's a friday and these Call options expire today. Here are how it's one day Puts are trading. At 11:15 a.m. these puts are "in-the-money". Now it's one day and five day chart. .... Doesn't it look like it's one day chart is going to run out of steam? Now let's look at how the stock ended up trading on the day. It looks like the stock basically traded sideways for the rest of the day however it really didn't. It has it's ups and downs. The little red line shows the action in the Put prices on the day. Had you bought the Puts at $.44 per contract (or $44.00 dollars) at 11:15 a.m. you could have sold them out at 12:08 p.m. for $1.66 a contract, at 1:26 p.m. for $1.42 a contract or at 2:56 p.m. (four minutes before the 3:00 p.m. sellout deadline) for $1.35 a contract! What amazing gains compared to the five days of drama found in my previous blog about trading drone options with one week of trading life left in them. Interday price swings on ...

First off why would you want to? It's a Monday morning. As we get closer to the two final days of trading in the "one-week" options on the following three stocks what we will learn is that the "liquidity-issue" will make them somewhat difficult to trade. Let's start by looking at these three drone stocks and looking at how their one week to expiracy options are trading. Most drone stocks don't really yet make any money but the world is waking up to understand the usefulness of their products when it comes to military fighting. Within this industry there is a lot of competition and there are many other countries also making drones. Trumph has helped to bump up the values of many of these drones stocks especially during the first half of this year. It's all now kind of a guessing game as to who the winners and losers are going to be. In the last few days a rough patch in the trading patterns of all drone stocks is causing alarm. 1) First a company cal...