My Options Play

Discussion in 'Options' started by Multioption, Oct 3, 2005.

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  1. XLNX has about a 65% chance to make a higher high than Oct 31st high on nov 1. If it reaches and trades thru 24.13 it will then drop back and probally close midrange or lower. If it doesn't break thru oct 31 st high it will probally trade down and close low.
     
    #441     Oct 31, 2005
  2. cnms2

    cnms2

    Daytrading options is very challenging. Are you daytrading equity / index options or future options?
     
    #442     Oct 31, 2005
  3. TZOO should trade a little thru Oct 31st high on Nov. 1. I don't expect it to trade up very far though.
     
    #443     Oct 31, 2005
  4. OSTK should make a lower low than oct 31st low on Nov 1
     
    #444     Oct 31, 2005
  5. cnms2

    cnms2

    Does your system account for today's DELL lowered guidance?
     
    #445     Oct 31, 2005
  6. LYO should make a lower low than oct 31st low on Nov 1. Sorry Cluseau but I see weakness there. Will I have to continue drinking coffee since i don't smoke?
     
    #446     Oct 31, 2005
  7. CNMS apart from my own proprietary software I also use tape reading. One assumption in tape reading is that it has already taken into consideration anything that could or has affected price today. The "smart money" or "deep pockets" would have already done what they needed to do for their best interest. I admit this was a hard one to call as it shows a smatter of strenght on one hand but weakness on the other. I leaned ever so slightly that the scales tipped in favor of strenght but I can tell you this ..not by much.
     
    #447     Oct 31, 2005
  8. mhashe

    mhashe



    cnms2 Thank you for your outline. The idea is to take advantage of chart reading abilities and take outright directional trades for a holding period of no more than a week. The logic is that if the short-term directional call is correct in the first place, then if the stock should drop for a few days after the trade is entered, LEAPS may lose their value but will regain most of the loss and more once the stocks starts trending in the desired direction. The premise is that once the stocks breaks out of a base, you can rely on a short-covering rally to propel the value of the LEAPS higher. I will do some homework on the downside conditions you kindly outlined.


    pinabetal, when you say " PMCS should make a higher high than oct31st high on Nov 1 tommorrow" what are you using to base that observation on? Personally I would wait and see how it opens before taking a directional bias.
     
    #448     Nov 1, 2005
  9. CPKI should head south some tomm. Lower low than Oct 31st low.
     
    #449     Nov 1, 2005
  10. It is a probability call with some risk because while the tape show strenght my software shows it is somewhat (a little) overbought in the very shorterm and therefore ready for a shorterm decline or pullback. However, my experience has been that many times when a stock is bullish and going up it will show overbought on successive days as it goes up. Nevertheless, it could open low and trade lower but IMO the higher probability lies in it opening high and breaking thru todays high early in the session. If it doesn't do so pretty early in the session (like within first 1.5 hours) then I would reverse my strategy and look at shorting or even if it breaks thru wait until the rally peaks and then short. We can only attempt to predict based upon what has happened but we MUST trade what really happens. So, I try to make the best prediction I can and if it proves correct then look at taking a position.
     
    #450     Nov 1, 2005
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