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Costco. It's Short Term Options

 Options on stocks in the $1,000  range often move  50%  or more in only a matter of  minutes on the opening on Wednesday and Thursday's . The trick is to  anticipate correctly which way the markets are going to move. That's a fools game you might say? Yes and no. It may not be a game you ever play but it might be something to consider to put in your bag of tricks when you are on a role. One thousand dollar stocks sometimes move five, ten or fifteen dollars on the day. If you have profits it's best to take them quickly. Costco is a prime example of that. Let's look at this mornings action. First it's five day and one day charts. Tuesday's trading was kind of choppy. Might it drop on the opening tomorrow? Here is a look at where the 1,035 series of Puts closed that expire this Friday. They closed at $8.50. It looks like Costco cycled up about five times yesterday. Given a weak market opening doesn't it stand to reason a three or four or five dollar will be i...

Turn Around Situations On A Tuesday - Walmart

First of all I don't really like playing one week options on stocks on a Tuesday. I would rather wait until Wednesday and look for a mid-week reset in the markets. That said, Walmart's one hour sell off on a Tuesday morning kind of tweaked my interest. Let's follow this together a see what happens.
One observation. Look at the volume of trading in the lowest series of call, the 90 series. They are the ones to stand to gain the most in any mini-short-term uptick. Yet then again, maybe the stock will continue to go lower. Here is it's five day chart as of seventeen minutes earlier.
Now the indexes.
Now a few minutes later at 11:02 a.m.
Now the same three series of Call options starting with the lowest striking priced options and the ones with the lowest trading volume.
A bid of $1.01-$1.08 has now jumped to $1.22 to $1.29. Doing the math on the higher two series offers equally as impressive gains.
Purchasing on contracts sizes of 10 or 20 could eke out small gains. This kind of stuff goes on all the time. The danger of this is of course that this rebound could quickly "Peter out". I would rather do it on a Wednesday to try and catch a mid week turnaround rally. I will show you the end of day closing readouts later. The action at 3:00 p.m..
At this point in time I would get out and just call it a day.
Notice now the sideward trend kicking into the afternoon trading. Short term option traders need not play these choppy sideways markets. Proof of this is shown in these following three readings.
Notice the wide "bid" and "ask" in the 90 series of Calls at the close?. Why is this? Well the option makers are giving themselves protection from what the morning opening bell might bring. Who needs to be part of this indecisiveness? The next two series of options also closed weak.
Who wants to be a daytrader? The DJIA closed down the day 178 points.

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