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Tesla Options Near the Close on Friday Afternoon. Building A Case For Making A High Risk Trade.

Tesla was up 11% in the last five days. Look at it's one and five day charts. ... Now here are one series of it's Call and one series of it's Put options with only 42 minutes of trading life remaining in them. Might these Calls rebound back upwards towards the closing? Afterall the D.J.I.A. is up almost 900 points on the day and this is one of the hottest stocks all week. The 400 series of Call options at this time are "in-the-money" by $.72, and are priced at $1.88. That's a premium of $1.16 over the striking price. Imagine all of the money lost by the existing 400 series of Call option holders in the last 60 minutes! Couldn't the stock now rebound two or three dollars in the blink of an eye? It did afterall once again just drop over $5.00 a share in the last hour of trading and it now seems to be holding steady. That's the carrot now dangling in front of everyones eyes. Is it time for a quick flip? If you have made twenty or thirty option trades on ...
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Caterpillar On A Monday Morning After A Week Where it Jumped $27.88

What do you think the stock is going to do this week? Here is what it did last friday.
Now here is what it did in the last 30 days.
If you think it might go down on the week here is last Friday's closing price on one series of Puts which are just over five dollars "out-of-the-money".
Can you see they cost $2.96 per contract and only 119 of them are outstanding? Option traders on last Friday's close were not rushing into buy them. But wait, why not buy the Puts closer to the stocks current selling price? Why not buy the 435 series of Puts? Well they cost more. The 435 Puts last Friday closed at $4.93.
The 435 Puts would be more sensitive to any minor dip on the opening however Caterpillar could still easily gain another five dollars on the day. That's why the interest in these Puts is so low. Here is what Wall Street thinks.
So what do I think? I know this stock reserves respect and it's hard to fight any stock in such a strong uptrend. Here however on a Monday morning is a chance to catch a slight pause in this stocks recent upwards projectory. Weekends often provide market resets. The 435 series of Puts could jump 20% or 25% in the first fifteen minutes of market trading making for a quick trade. Let's see what happens. ** It's 10:00 a.m. and no such luck. The DJIA is down and Caterpillar sits very much unchanged.
Now a look ten minutes later. Look at how the stock has dropped. Finally the Puts are starting to go up and the volume is increasing in them.
Now here we are another ten minutes later.
Here it now at 23 minutes later.
Now here is a look at it's five day chart. What do you think about this type of chart?
Here is how Caterpillar the two series of Puts we are watching closed the day.closed the day.
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