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The stock Ford reports 7/30/2025 (Post-Market). In a July 2nd blog I did Ford talked about their June sales. Here is something I posted in that blog. Ford jumped $.50 cents and look at how this series of Calls (which were "out-of-the-money" with one day to go) jumped. This was a once in a 100 day occurance. So will earning's be good this quarter? General Motors has earning report coming out before the market opens this Tuesday. The two stocks sometimes reflex the same market momentim. Here is how things for G.M. are lined up to go. Investors are getting tired of hearing about consumers buying new pre-tariffs. Things might start to slow down. All I really know is that the volume of trading in both the Calls and Puts are next to nonexistent. For this reason alone I would stay away. Tesla Puts and Calls offer a better ride for your money. To be continued.
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So What Can Happen With One Day Options (Friday Options) On The Day That The Djia Closes Up Over 400 Points?

 First, here is how the markets closed on the day last on June 27th 2025.

In recent times that is happening more often than you think. Let's look a these following five stocks

1) Walmart.


They were up 135.29%

2) Fedex.

Of coarse these ones were "out-of-the-money". Here are the "near-to-the-money"  Calls where the risk were less and the gains not as spectacular.
Still not a bad gain but a much safer trade.

3) McDonalds. This stock is beat up as of late.


A 194% gain on the day. Can you see how we are not looking at obscure stocks.

4) Carvana

These Calls were slightly "out-of-the-money" Look at the low and the high.

5) Boeing. 


Here is an extreme price increase. 10,400%. You don't see that very often.
Now here is another Boeing Call option with a lower striking price, something more conservative option players might find themselves in. The rewards were also impressive.



I could go on with countless other examples. Now look at this. A screen shot of  pharmaceutical stocks I am watching on one screen.. Can you see how so many stocks traded on the same day in the red?

One day Call options on any of these stocks would have failed. By the same token look at the negligible gains and small losses in all of these auto stocks on the same day.  Gains on the day like $.01, $.04, $.07 and $.17. One day Call options on stocks in this sector would not have worked. Even the darling stock Tesla failed to take off on a day the DJIA was up 431 points.

So what really is my point in writing this blog? Well anyone with a distain for looking at "one-day-until-expiring-options" should wake up to the reality that this type of trading is not about throwing darts at a wall. There is work and risk taking involved in picking the winners of the day.

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