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Here is a one day chart showing how Neflix traded on December 31st 2025. It sold off on the opening and then had a decent rebound followed by a flat to down closing. January 1st was a holiday and options on it expire on Friday, January 2nd. Now look at a chart of how the 93 series of Calls that expire tomorrow (January 2nd) traded on the previous trading day December 31st. At one point in the day they rallied only then to sell off again. Here now is the same chart from a different provider. Let's put a bold spin on things. Let's move up the price point by $1.00 to the 94 dollar price level and put a new spin on things. Will the 94 series of Calls with one day to go jump on the opening January 2nd which is tomorrow? Why the 94 series and not the 93 series? Well it's hoping for a rebound from three prior days of falling markets. Here they are. Both of the series we are showing are slightly "out-of-the money" one day Calls. Both need a sizeable morning bounce to p...
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Carvana On A Tuesday

 It played the same game as Carvana also did on a Monday. Look at these three charts.

1)

It's up on the opening and the Puts at this point (they are "out-of-the-money") are trading at $3.25.


Now the chart changes.

That's the same thing it did yesterday. Yesterday it topped out around 11:00 a.m. and today it topped out around 11:30 a.m.. Now this. It starts to rebound.

So how do you think the Puts did on that downturn. We here is a look just after the fact. You can see how high they went. They went to $4.82.

If you look at the chart more carefully you will see that at around 11:30 a.m. they actually traded down to $2.60. It's not much of a trade but the point is this stock on day one and day two of the week is tradable. I would argue that this "tradability" diminishes towards the last two days of the trading week. At the end of  day (a Tuesday),  Carvana was only up on the day $2.89.
At the end of the day the Puts were basically unchanged from where they were trading at in the morning.
Here now is it's five day chart. It's up about $25.00 in five days. Now its not as exciting to play.







How is Avis Budget doing?
Up another 18% on the day.
How did it close the day?

All this on no news. 

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