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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...
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