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Is Boeing Going To Jump On The Opening Tomorrow And Will It Be Best To Buy In Shortly After The Market Opens And Dips?

The title is kind of complicated and tomorrow action may be mutted. Here is it's five day chart. Remember it had earnings come out mid-week. Some of tomorrow's Call and Put options will be one day options. I am more inclined to buy Calls near Friday's close hoping for a pop on Monday morning. So here now are two series of Boeing Calls going into Friday's action. There is still one linguering question hanging in the air. Was the earning's report really a bad one? Sometimes fresh eyes a few days after an earning's report can shed some new light on things. The small open interest in the 220 Calls is about two and one half times smaller than the interest in the 222.50 Calls. That's to be expected. Yet why is the interest in the Calls so low? Also included into this mix are a look at the 217.50 Puts. If the market's tomorrow open and go sideways for ten minutes then these one will cost less than they are trading at now. I would wait on these ones. Puts in t...
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Car Puts. Not Catputs

Avis runs with the stock symbol "Car". Here was its chart today.
We are starting to see more charts like this. Here is one reason why it fell.
Here are how other companies I watch in this same space traded on the day.
Now these two five day charts.
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Is the sky falling or is this just a bump in the road for Avis?
It's to early to tell. If the job market says healthy then this is just a little bump in the road and G.M. is forcasting record breaking profits for the next two quarters. Now a five year chart on Hertz.
Maybe these three month out, "in-the-money" Call options would be an interesting play.
It would be a bet on the used car industry surviving the rest of the summer and slightly beyond. Could the stock go back to where it was trading thirty days ago? People still need cars to go to work. Yet what again do I know? **** A next day look at the stock Carvana.
Yes used cars are still expensive.

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