Option Trading Strategies To Avoid.

Ford Call Options on A Monday morning that expire at the end of the 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? Is this 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 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 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 call "watching paint dry". Let's see what happens. Now a noon hour update.

It's chart is starting to look perky. To be continued.