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Going Out On A Limb. Exxon Calls.

Let's start with this. A five dollar drop is one of the biggest drops in days. These Calls don't have the strenght of Calls purchased at the close on Fridays which then give you the advantage oil prices shifting over weekend discontent. Let's see what happens. Here is what it's afternoon trading looked like on the day. It depends on what is said to be happening overseas. These Calls could jump on the opening. At 1:00 a.m. it was trading flat. Now a reading on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. There was no bounce back up however the D.J.I.A. sold off at the end of the day.
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Eli Lilly

When a stock drops over $50.00 in the first three hours on trading one a day and when the DJIA index is up can you play it for a one or two day partial rebound? $9.00 or nine hundred dollars gets you in.
That's the question now being asked and based on the number of new Call contracts being purchased the answer is probably no.
As of 11:50 a.m. I can't find any news to explain this drop. Now this, if you just came off a morning gain from trading Tesla Calls, see my last blog might you be willing to part with some of these winnings? This could be another short term opportunity given that the D.J.I.A is so strong. Lets check out the action in thirty minutes.
The stock is up $3.81 and the Call options went from $9.00 to $11.80 in thirty minutes. Do you take the money and run? Very few traders are speculating in this series of Calls. There is the danger that in this kind of situations that a second shoe could drop at any minute. Yet the DJIA continues to remain positive. That should let you ride this situation a little bit longer. Now this at 2:10 p.m..
How did Calls end up closing out the week?
What a day it had. Eli Lilly is a stock which doesn't like to sit still. When most stocks fall off like this it takes a couple off weeks to shrug off the bad news. Not Eli Lilly.

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