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Looking for Unusual Experiences. "BigBear".

There is a little stock that has recently started to gain an inordinate amount of attention. It trades millions of shares per day and I recently started blogging about it. It's price changes on a daily basis can be dramatic. Here once again are it's details. Now it's thirty day and five day chart. Option players playing one week options on this stock are getting wild rides. Look at this, today's one day chart. Now look at today's Puts. It's one day, six series of Puts on it traded at a low of $.03 cents in the morning and then shot up in the afternoon. $.35 cents was the high. Is there any point in taking this stock seriously and tracking how it's options are trading? Usually I would say not really however when I see millions of shares trading everyday I know that millions of Americans who can trade commission free can glue themselves to their computer screens and play like these these options all day long enjoying these two and three and ten cent price...
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Option Trading Strategies To Avoid.

Ford Call Options on a Monday morning that expire at the end of this week.
Had you bought the Calls on it on Friday morning that expired that afternoon you would have made out very well. Here is what Ai says.
Now this, the 12 series of Calls options on a Monday morning that expire at the end of the week. They took a slight dip.
Here is it's Monday morning chart.
Here is a look at the same options twenty one minutes later. Traders have bought in on this dip.
Is this trading strategy, buying this weeks Calls on a Monday morning on a stock hitting a fifty-two week high a prudent thing to be doing? Or could this be a question of coming to the party to late? This is the concern. Why not purchase instead "in-the-money-Calls" with one month's trading life in them still to go? That would be a safer strategy. Their next earnings report comes out on October 27th.
Here is how other stocks are trading. It's a mixed bag.
So now it becomes a waiting game and this is one of the reasons why I called this blog "Option Trading Strategies To Avoid". It's no fun getting stuck in waiting games like this, an exercise I sometimes refer to as "watching paint dry". Let's see what happens next. Now a noon hour update.
It's chart is starting to look perky. Here it is at 2:15 p.m. The options are not doing very much. Five day out Options take time to turn around. They are not the most exciting of options to play.
Now it's time to get out.
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Now remember the one month series of Call options we showed back at 10:15 a.m. trading at $.96 Here they are now at 3:03 p.m. trading at $1.20. That's not a bad gain for a morning hold.
Why do I say "get out?" Make a quick profit and just say thank you. A stock in this price range hitting a fifty two week high does attract attention. Playing these Calls was an exercise in getting a free ride at a hot time. Here is it's one year chart.
Last Friday is when the real action happened. Ford options for longer periods of times can be at times somewhat discouraging to play.

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