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Could Boeing Surprise This Week?

It's beaten up. Here is it's five and thirty day charts. Boeing is a company which gets rattled by a barrage of events and gets to bask in the continuous good news of unexpected new orders. The backlogs continue to grow infinitely large. Will Boeing benefit from good news this week? That's the appeal of this series of Calls. Yet before we get cozy and jump into this weeks action let me show you one day of last's weeks trading action. Here is the closing price last Wednesday on it's 220 series of Calls. At that point in time they still had two trading days life left in them. They then ended up on Friday expiring worthless. That's a sobering thought. You can confirm what I am talking about on it's above five day chart. Playing options on this stock is not a walk in the park. Now let us look at this weeks 217.50 and 220 series of Calls starting with the 220 series which are further "out-of-the-money" and more of a gamble. They both offer five days ...
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Is Boeing Going To Jump On The Opening Tomorrow And Will It Be Best To Buy In After The Market Opens And Dips?

The title is somewhat complicated. Here is Boeing's five day chart. It looks kind of ugly.
Remember it had earnings come out mid-week. Now we are in the situation where one series of tomorrow's Calls and one series of tomorrows Put options will be one day options. I am more inclined to wait and consider purchasing it's "next-week-out" Call options near Friday's close hoping for a rebound on Monday morning after this weeks dust has settled. In any event here now are two series of Boeing Calls going into Friday .
Notice that there is next to no volume in the slightly "out-of-the-money" Calls. Boeing's chart once again scares trader's away. One linguering question remains. Was it's 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 it's Calls, in general, so low? One reason is that the trading action is more focused on stocks with good earning reports. Also included into this mix is a look at the 217.50 Puts. If the market's tomorrow open and go sideways or down two dollars these Puts in the $.37 cent range with one day to go might suprise.
Let's see what happens next. Now this at 10:06 a.m. The Puts did suprise.
Now this at 10:14 a.m.
Look at the volume going into next weeks Boeing Call options.
Options traders find security in thinking ahead about better days. Now a late lunch time update. The Puts are now toast.
Boeing is rebounding.
The 220 Calls we looked at back at 10:13 a.m. are rebounding and actually hit a high of $5.10.
Going into the Monday morning trading with next weeks 220 Calls is a good space to be in.

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