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The Sliding Door Syndrome - Hertz

 Open the door and guess what might happen? Who knows which way the winds will be blowing. The used auto car market got dumped on last week in the U.S, especially on tariffs new.  Trump said he might raise the tariffs on cars to more than 25%. It's a fickled  market. Here are a few of the sell offs. 1) Carvana Company. It sold off over $21.00 dollars on the day last Friday. They have a reputation for having share manipulations with a long history of  insider "buying-and selling-activities". They have a short interest of 5.3% . It didn't help much that the DJIA was down over 700 points on Friday. 2} Carmax also sold off on the week. They have an earnings report coming out and that could cause the stock to drop but maybe not. It could actually rally. Here is it's one week chart and a conference call dial in number. Listen to it if you like. I might be. Now here is a look at the 65 series of Calls on this stock that expire this coming Friday.  On Friday morning at ...

Watching Boeing on A Friday Afternoon

Friday afternoon options are near impossible to trade (or are they) and Boing sometimes jumps $5.00 on Monday mornings when other stocks like Deere and Caterpillar are trading flat. It needs the weekends to unwind and reset. Did it survive the weekend without any disasters? It's a big company with many moving parts. Now it's Friday's chart going into the 1:00 p.m. period. Anything can happen.
Here is what the indexes are doing. It's another day of reporters calling out Trump on his lies.
Now look at these two series of Call options. They will expiring in a few hours. Both are "out-of-the money".
Might they move up in the next couple of hours? Here they are again about fifteen minutes later still walking a fine line. If the stock doesn't go up in the next two hours you lose. Is this the kind of game you want to find yourself in? Probably not, there are afterall safer situations to be considering.
Remember with options expiring on this Friday you have to be out of your postion by 3:00p.m. and not 4:00p.m. otherwise you run the risk of getting sold out. That's just the way the system works. If they expire worthless there is no closing out commission to pay. Now let's jump ahead one hour.
$.35-$.38 up from $.23-$.26. The stock has inched up less than a dollar. 445 new contracts were added in the last sixty minutes.
The markets are not doing much. Well they are starting to sell off.
That should tell you it's time to get out. In this case remember that 3:00p.m. is the deadline on Friday expiring options. Boeing ended up closing Friday at 174.63 so the 175 Calls we were watching expired worthless.(I will revisit this blog on Monday to see if Boeing had any weekend pop). Here is Boeing current five day chart and a look at it's new week's 175 series of Call options as of 2:26 p.m. Once again, sometimes but not always it pops on Monday mornings.
Read up on Boeing. It's an amazing company but struggling right now. **** The markets had a suprise jump on the close.
Check back in next week to see how this option series turned out. ++++ Read my previous blog on "Snowflake" which I just updated to talk about how to set up something called a "spread". The bounce on Monday morning.

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