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Boeing "Near-To-The-Money" Options Baffles Me On A Friday Morning.

After a four day period of intense price changes for the stock Boeing on Friday morning presents itself as trading in a sea of calm. It's trading flat. Here is it's daily price swings over the previous four days. $5.50, $4:10, $6.00 and $5.40. One has to wonder whether or not these large daily price movements are somehow formulated into providing the Friday morning's "bids and ask". They should be. The reason I mention this is that the Friday morning's "bids and ask" in the first few hours of trading look particularly inexpensive to me. Is it because there are no scheduled press happening today? .. Now a 12:33 p.m. price check. With stock trading flat and with a couple of hours of trading life still left in these options, couldn't the stock drop down or go up another three or four dollars? That's what seems to have happened over the week. .......... Now this at the end of the trading session. At 3:00 p.m., the time these options expired ...
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What is McDonald's Doing ?

Here are one series of it's Puts that expire this Friday. They are "out-of-th-money" so it's going to take a bit of a directional move to get a payout.
Now it's five day chart.
Is the stock going up because the DJIA is up?
This to me is more a play on what the markets are doing than the stock itself. Here is how it closed the day.
It's largely unchanged from where it was trading at back at 1:18 p.m.. Here is how the D.J.I.A. closed the day.
Let's skiop ahead to Friday. It closed down 793 points. The 310 Puts had a good day.

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