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NIO Could This Be The Real Thing?

Do you know the company? The stock first came to the DJIA back in 2018 at $6.25 a share and no it doesn't pay dividends. It took off. Here is it's share pricings dating back to when it first got listed. A lot of people got burned. Here was an overseas company boasting of having the fastest electric car in the world. Zoom went the stock and then it crashed. Now this. Today it had news. A quarterly earnings report and for the first time it turned a profit. That was a suprise.The new question is can they continue to do this or was this event just a splash in the pan? Look what happened this morning. This is a five day chart. Look at these 9:46 a.m. Call options and the 4:00 p.m. options. ... So this is a situation where you can buy in after the release of good news and still get out in the day at a profit. Imagine if this news came out on Thursday afternoon just after the closing bell? Inexpensive little soon to expire "one-day" Call options would shoot to the moon....
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Netflix - One Day vs Next Weeks Calls.

It's Thursday and the DJIA is up.
Here is how Netflix is doing.
Now this.
Remember that this stock recently did a 10-1 forward stock split.
Things don't look good, why isn't the stock sharing in today's upward glee? In situations like this it's best just to stay away. Look at how cheap the Call options look that expire tomorrow.
They look tempting however next weeks Call options offer so much more security.
Now this at 12:38 p.m. The markets continue to go up.
Netflix continues to sell off.
Now I am showing tomorrows and next week's Calls just after noon hour. The options that will take the most heat for the rest of the day will be the short term options.
There are decent volumes in both of these series of options. An end of the day report. First the options that expire tomorrow. It would be silly to be in this series of Calls.
Now next weeks Calls.
Now it's five day chart.
One week options are a long way away. Stocks with a bias to the downside are difficult to trade. Now this.
It tells you what Netflix is up to. Investors don't like confusion. Now Friday on the opening. Look at the volume of Calls traded in the first few minutes. They have doubled in price. They are the ones I said were silly to be in.
What about the one week out Call options? Well they have also provided a healthy return. Now would be a good time to get out.
Now an end of the week report. The near term options didn't do well. Next weeks Calls still have lots of life lft in them.
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To be continued in a week or two.

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