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A Look At "Ford" Calls On A Tuesday Morning Opening. FORD BLOGS CAN BE A GOOD READ

Here is how it seems to be set up to go. How it all turns out might surprise you. We are expecting a slightly weak opening on the price on Ford's stock price this morning and on the D.J.I.A. index. Yes there is fresh news on the Ford Motor Company before the opening. They have announced yet another recall. This time it's for "wiper blade" issues on over 400,000 vehicles. That number is not a typing error. At least it's not a recall for engine or transmission problems. In an odd sort of way this news will help to get past customers back into their showrooms for like thirty minutes or so. The recall should be a quick, one time fix. It's still however going to cost them massive headaches to organize and millions of dollars. What an inconvience for a large number of drivers. Look at these two premarket readouts, the second one at 9:00 a.m. Can you see Ford's stock price trading down in the premarkets?. The question is how much will the 11.5 series of Calls d...
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Costco Again. One of The Most Explosive Stocks For Option Trading

 When it comes to option trading Costco options have a couple of things going for it. First, the reliability of it's business model. It's the retailing of the stuff people like to buy. Secondly they have a massive distribution system and it's unlikely that any new competitors will come out of the woodwork and disrupt what they have going. When you buy options on Costco you kind of know your positions you purchase are not going to blow up and obliterate you for reasons you never expected. Also on the plus side for option traders is that the stock moves up or down quickly. On the other hand it's always  difficult to rationalize the exercise of throwing money into playing the downside ( buying Puts) when we know there will be traffic jams in Costco's parking lot this Saturday like any other Saturday. Costco is not going to go away. Here is Costco's five and thirty day charts. First the five day.

The five day chart shows it jumping in price on last weeks earning report. I blogged about that last week. The Call options went crazy last Friday, especially the ones that were "out-of-the-money". Now it's thirty day chart. Today is Tuesday  at 10:12 a.m. and the short term options on Costco expire this Friday.
The stock now is trading at $1,051.75. What if, and this is now this is highly conjectory the stock were to suddenly drop $15.00 or  $25.00.  It very well could . It often does. Is there any point in playing that game? In some ways there is no real reason in wanting to play it. It's not like buying Boeing Calls at the close on a Friday expecting a pop on Monday morning. There is no real strategy in buying Costco Puts. Doing so would be an exercise in buying them on a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts. Now this, two series of puts that expire the Friday. It is now Tuesday morning. Let's watch and see what happens.
First, Put options that cost $4.50 that are $14.15 "out-of-the-money". I am talking about the $1040.00 series of Puts. The stock would have to drop down $14.15 plus another $4.50 just to break even. Now the $1035 puts. They cost a bit less and the stock would have to drop down even further.
Let's watch see what happens. It might be a total wipeout but maybe not. Even a small decline today might bring some rewards.  Now this.
A slight decline ninety minutes later.

I would just say thank you and get out. Trading Costco options is like walking on eggs. Four day options on stocks in the $1,000.00 dollar range are easier to play than five day options. Don't ask me why. I am still learning.

Now here is how it sold off late in the morning around 11:40 a.m. (the second chart below)
and here immediately below is  how Costco rebounded back up and closed the day. It ended up being  down only $1.26.



$450.00 went to $675.00 and $2.86 went to $5.20. in ninety two minutes. All  of this happened between 10:12 a.m. and 11:40  a.m. The fills on Costco are pretty good meaning the bids and asks are real. With the stock being so volatile they can't control the direction of which way the stock might go. T
This type of downward action isn't exclusive to Costco. See my blog of June 23th.

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