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My Addiction To Pfizer Options.

I am sure it will go away but here is today's action. Addiction may be the wrong word, perhaps fascination is better. The DJIA index closed up 588 points on the day, a Wednesday after losing more than that on the previous day. Now Pfizer's one day chart. Can you see how it got dragged up? Now this. A look at it's Puts which expire on Friday. Now this. There was no trading in them during the last 2.5 minutes of trading. In some ways that's a good thing. Could tomorrow's market open down? Here is what it's five day chart now looks like. At 9:32 a.m. this morning it was trading at $25.62 and at 10:02 a.m. it traded down to $24.44. A drop like that on tomorrow's opening would do wonders for these Puts. Let's see what happens.
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Wednesdays Can Bring Market Reversals, Once Again My Focus in Looking At Playing Short Term (Less Than One Week) Options

Two stocks and the activity on their Put options today.
Only 17 option contracts traded on them today. Traders are afraid to trade them. Wednesdays are often the best days of the week for market reversals. The second stock is one I also recently talked about, Netflix. Here is today's action.
The stock is down however if you look at the chart the drop is barely noticeable. Or said differently, price changes like this are a near regular occurance.Yes there was light to moderate trading in this series of slightly "out-of-the-money" Puts. * The concept of playing short term options on stocks priced in this high price range is best suited for day trading only. It is advised traders do not hold onto overnight positions to avoid the risk of getting caught on the wrong side of a trade. That plus the time value element of the equation becomes more of a worry, with in this case only two day to go in the life of these options. Getting stuck going the wrong way will be fatal. Wednesdays give you the luxury of trading interday without much of a concern for the "time value" issue. In contrast, Monday and Tuesday option trading tend to be priced more defensively and make less profitable the exercise of trading one day price swings which are less than ten dollars. It's all kind of difficult to explain. ..
Once again, Wednesdays are often the best day of the week to look for interday market reversals on options on high priced stocks.

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