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Boeing Calls. Learning To Catch The Action

It's Monday morning and earnings come out tomorrow. Only a small number of new Call and Put holders are lining up to do battle. Here is it's five day chart. Here are one series of the Boing Calls and Puts closed the day with it's earning report coming out before the opening tomorrow. It's the classic case of having more outstanding Calls than Puts before any earning's report. Option traders are inherently optimistic. Could you buy both a Call and a Put and hope that the stock moves more than about $10.50 in one direction? That's what it would take to break even. I don't like such a strategy however it does sometimes work. Remember that Tesla dropped about $26.00 on the opening last week after it reported? Here is how Boeing closed the day. Here is the effect of how this strong close affected the 235 Calls and Puts. Both the Calls and Puts were pretty boxed in on the day. Let's see what the morning brings. It happened. It's earnings where releas...

Ford Puts

The stock has had a nice five day move.  Up until today that is.

Short term options on stocks in the ten dollar range need to be purchased in multiples of ten or more because commissions are crazy expensive on options in this price range. At least they are in Canada.. Here is a look at the price of Puts yesterday on a series of Puts that will expire tomorrow.
Bid $.04 or $4.00 per contract and ask $.05 or $5.00 per contract. They actually traded down to a low of $.02 on the day. Now here is a look at them today, which is a Thursday.
Was there a catastrophe drop in the markets to make this  happen?  Not really.
Trading options on ten dollar stocks with two days to go is full of surprises. I have talked about Ford options before. I will provide an update to this blog after the markets close tomorrow which is when these Puts expire.  Ford options have good liquidity and tight spreads. They often change materially in price in a one hour period of time .I also note that Ford and Stellantis are now trading for about the same price. G.M. did a major recent buy back program and is trading at a higher price this year than last year.  The trading patterns of all three of these companies get constantly bantered around with all of these tariff  talks happenings. Now here is what happened on Friday.  First the markets were down.
Now this. Friday's trading chart and a look at how the 10.5 series of Puts closed the week.

Look at the swings in it's price. Look at Ford's one day (Friday) trading pattern. Back at noon when the price of the stock was over $10.50 the holders on these Puts might have being biting their nails. 

If your new to this game don't try trading them on Fridays.

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