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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 of is kind of complicated. Here is Boeing's five day chart. It looks kind of ugly. Remember it had earnings come out mid-week. One series of tomorrow's Call and 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's action. 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 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...
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Microsoft. Meta Platforms. Options That Are To Hot To Handle

Their charts.
Now it's one day chart, twenty nine minutes after the mornig opening bell.
It's to late to follow the action. Skeptics say that the market makers manipulate all the action when this type of activity happens and that it's best just to say away. I agree. Now this stock, Carvana. Look at it's chart. I also jumped.
It shows the same kind of movement.
So too did Meta Platforms. Now a comment about four, five and seven hundred dollars stocks. If your a small fish in the sea you don't want to play with these sharks when you see these chart formations. The likes of stocks like Boeing in the $100.00 to $250.00 price range are a different breed to play. Here is how these three stocks closed the day and something that JP Morgan says.
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Here we have three near identical chart formations which option makers now have to unwind. It will be both interesting and a learning experience to see how all of this plays itself out. Three charts to now look at on Friday. a day the DJIA is down 600 points.
Had you got in yesterday to play todays downside (the Puts) they would have all doubled. What can be learned from this? 1) Stay away from trying to outguess the action on the days these high priced stocks surge. That in itself is a big lesson. 2) Playing the downside is not always the way to go. In this case the DJIA is down about 600 points so all three of these stocks got dragged down. That's not always the way it is going to be. 3) The pricings on options of stocks in this price range are aiways so expensive. Learn to just stay away. It's not a game for the little guys to be in.

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