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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...

Ford Always Piggybacks G.M.'s Earning Reports

Look out. Option players can get whipsawed. A good earnings report can turn out to be a bad earnings report. If you have time read this.
Here is how G.M. traded yesterday after the release of their quarterly earnings report.
A heathy earnings report and the stock sold off in price. Now these two readouts.
With the stock closing at $50.02 cents might it rebound on the morning after? Now look at this.
These options in the first hour of trading don't know what they want to do and they still have a few days life left in them. Ford has an earnings report coming out Feb. 5th. The results of G.M. large cash flows might tweak the interest in owing Ford Calls. Folks this is real time action where trading decisions abound. Here is a 10:03 a.m. printout of how G.M. is trading on the day.
The stock is doing nothing. Let's look now at the Ford short options knowing their earning report is coming out in a few days. .
Here is it's five day chart. It sold off yesterday in sympathy with G.M.'s decline.
What do I think is going to happen? The tariff talks are a big scare and options on $50.00 priced stocks do not swing as much as options on stocks that cost double or triple that amount. Yet the real point of this blog is to point out that this piggyback type of action of Ford and G.M. happens four times a year. It's now 3:17 p.m., a few hours after this first posting. G.M. makes cars and trucks in both Canada and Mexico. Trump is talking tariffs this weekend. Will this become a new reality which might start to weigh in and push the price of both of these stocks down? G.M. isn't rebounding.
.Now this.
. Now the Jan 30th opening for the 50 series G.M. Calls. These are dangerous options to be in with time running out and the clock ticking as to why the tariffs might be imposed. I would just bail on them and step aside from trying to play Ford for the upside.
I actually like options on higher priced stock better which often swing more or options on stocks in the $10.00 range. Now this. A look at the G.M. chart for the day.
Here are the 50 series of Calls at the end of the day.
G.M. ended up closing out the week (Jan 30th) at $49.43. After following this action all week waiting for an upward rebound the stock fizzled out. Now let's look ahead to February 4th which is a Tuesday. As we can see G.M. is still caught up in tariff worries.
The new question is the one of will Ford stock now suprise? None of this is a walk in the park. With earning coming out after the closing bell tomorrow here is the Feb 4th five day chart and the closing readings on this Friday's Calls and Puts. Their numbers are all crazy expensive.
Read my Feb 9th blog to see how next week Ford Put options fared.

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