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"Late To The Party "Option Players And "Disney" On Good News

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. That's why the heading is called "Late to the Party Option Players". It's using options as a trading vehicle to reacte to a situation as opposed to anticipating a situation to happen. 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 ...

Five Day Swings. A Monday Morning Story About Option Playing

So we all woke up Monday morning to yet another selloff. Investors are pissed. Margin calls are going out. If your trying to save for a downpayment for a new house and you have money in the markets it's a double whammy. Is there any relevancy in trying to outguess the markets at this point in time using options as a trading vehicle? Not really. When Russia invaded Ukraine the markets went array for months. We are witnessing the same thing happening now. It's nonsensical to be buying Puts on the closing on a Friday afternoon hoping for Trump to stir up the pot over the weekend yet that's what it seems take to create a winning trade. Everything is screwed up. Market volatility causes option premiums to be priced in a way to disuade traders from entering into postitions. Here is a case in point. Carvana dropped twenty dollars last week. Just below you can see it's chart. Having said all of this the remainer of this blog castes a shadow on everything I have just said. Please read about what happened this morning.
The markets dropped on the opening this morning and Carvana also dropped and then quickly regained what it lost. You can see that drop at the tail end of the five day chart shown above as it includes the first thirty minutes of the Monday morning trading. It was in that moment of fear that some option traders took advantage of by opening up new positions. You can see one series of Calls I posted just below on Carvana trade down to the $5.75 price point. An hour later these same traders could be out at a profit. In a way that goes against everything I just said about being able to successfully trade in these markets. Now here is it's thirty day chart. Used car prices might start to go up.
Now here is a look at these same Calls that traded down to $5.75 two hours into the morning's trading action. They have doubled.
Now for a comment that is somewhat unusual. Yes you can sit around all weekend and look at charts and speculate as to what might happen in the coming days. Yet that is something many successful option traders don't have to do. It's about catching short term market swings and it's usually easier to justify purchasing Calls than Puts like in what happened this morning. A fear factor plagued the markets this morning after the entire world watched in disbelief Trump doing an interview on an airplane over the weekend telling reporters he doesn't really know what the term stagflation means and telling eveyone he wants to target a whole bunch of additional countries with tariffs. The futures markets panicked after witnessing that interview. Is this goon out to destroy his country? Why is he now talking about his abilities to win yet another future election based on the great work he is now doing? I can see why the markets opened in a state of panic. Reacting to panic. That's the new game option traders are adapting to. *** Here is how the same Carvana Calls closed the day.

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