CAT Puts

The one week chart tells the entire story. A thirty day chart adds more detail. Moves this large seldom happen over such compressed periods of time. Look at how these two series of Call options traded on Friday. Back on May 6th I did a blog called "Ford Motor Company Calls On The Week" and in that blog I showed this chart. Back then it was still the same story. Also of note is the fact that Ford is not doing particularly well in their quest to churn out more vehicles. I think this stock will now take a breather. Anyone playing thirty day options on Ford during this time period will be up like three or four times on their initial investment. Naysayers take note. Opportunities do happen. Traders are even finding value in 2028 Ford option Calls! Now Hertz. Might car rentals pick up in the next month as summer months approaches? Yes gas prices are up however summer is when many people take vacations and want to hit the road. Flying is now getting expensive. Renting a car is...

First it's one and five day charts. The time period is near the end of the morning trading session on a Friday morning. Walmart and Costco are beat up. .. If you are thinking about looking for a rebound it doesn't help much that Costco is down over $40.00 on the day. Now here is the pricing on one series of Walmart Calls at 11:27 a.m.. Walmart is also trading down. Now here is the price on one series of Costco Calls at 11:28 a.m.. For what it's worth the D.J.I.A. remains strong. Most day traders just walk away from Friday afternoon "last-day-to-expiring" option trading. Now here are the two closing charts. Both series of Calls would have given you your money back but that's about it. The next week out Call options would have provided slight returns. When you see a $46.00 morning drop on Costco you know that the dust still has to settle.

Here is it's story. .... What a move it had yesterday followed by another upward move on the opening this morning. Here is how the D.J.I.A is trading at 10:45 a.m. Are the Calls or the Puts going to win on the day? ..... Notice the open interest in the Calls far exceeds the action in the Puts. That's almost always the way it is. What do you think is going to happen? Now this, a one day chart showing all of the action on the day. At 3:00 p.m., the deadline time period to get out the stock was trading at $252.15. Timing is everything. Anyone purchasing the 250 series of Calls around 12:30 p.m. when the stock as at $245.45 would have done wonderfully well.

Look at how this stock opened. Now look at these two series of Puts that expire tomorrow. What do I notice? The stock is up almost $20.00 and trader's are not jumping in to play the downside. There has to be a reason for that. It's not like seeing Boeing jump up $4.00 on a Monday morning and to then decide to play it downwards. What I do notice is the number zero when it comes to the number of Puts traded on it's options that expire tomorrow. This is at a time when the DJIA is down 101 points. Now this 17 minutes later. The stock has not given up any of it's gain. Now this. What to I think? My focus is on "daytrading" options with Thursday being my least favorite day of the week to be making trades. If you are playing the options series expiring the next day (the Friday options) the premiums charged to be in the game are to expensive. That plus you have about a 50-50 chance of guessing corectly which way the market is going to open on the following day...