MCD is in big trouble. May not exist in 5 years

Nine_Ender · May 16, 2016

ironchef said:
But he made money because of his bullish bet on MCD: Mostly of the time during this thread he sold Puts on MCD betting it would go up so his Puts expired worthless and he collected his premium.

I followed a few of his trades. They were extremely high risk, with any sudden move against him could have caused a large loss. In fact, the day before expiry, on one such trade, he was sitting on a precarious ( and losing ) overnight position that could have been a massive loss on open. He lucked out and the price rebounded on expiry day. Too much risk for too little return in my opinion.

syswizard · May 17, 2016

Nine_Ender said:
He lucked out and the price rebounded on expiry day. Too much risk for too little return in my opinion.

Yepper....waiting until expiration day to close-out a trade is always hairy. Volatility can be crazy on the day-of.

felixbocharov · May 17, 2016

It's already more than a year since the first post and MCD is still alive and kicking

hajimow · Jun 27, 2016

Covered my positions with 3.2% loss in total (from start to close). The reason that my loss is low is that I was selling options to reduce the damage. This trade needed more patient that I had.

hajimow · Jun 27, 2016

sold SBUX weekly 52.5 PUT at 0.42 . naked PUT.

S2007S · Jun 27, 2016

felixbocharov said:
It's already more than a year since the first post and MCD is still alive and kicking

Ha....

I'm not into fast food...rarely eat maybe once or 3 times a year....however McDonald's will be around for the next 20+ years. MCD has been in trouble before and probably will have some setbacks along the way but for this entire franchise to disappear in 5 years is not happening.....4 more years from now and McDonald's will still be here.

2rosy · Jun 27, 2016

MCD is taking over oprah studios as its new headquarters

kinggyppo · Jun 27, 2016

2rosy said:
MCD is taking over oprah studios as its new headquarters

yeah I guess the thinking is they will attract more millennials by being in the city, brave new world. Still waiting for them to split the hamburger/french fry business.

felixbocharov · Jun 27, 2016

S2007S said:
Ha....

I'm not into fast food...rarely eat maybe once or 3 times a year....however McDonald's will be around for the next 20+ years. MCD has been in trouble before and probably will have some setbacks along the way but for this entire franchise to disappear in 5 years is not happening.....4 more years from now and McDonald's will still be here.

Sure it will be, in some sense MCD is also too big to fail, because it's simply not that easy for this monster to collapse.

ironchef · Jun 27, 2016

S2007S said:
Ha....

I'm not into fast food...rarely eat maybe once or 3 times a year....however McDonald's will be around for the next 20+ years. MCD has been in trouble before and probably will have some setbacks along the way but for this entire franchise to disappear in 5 years is not happening.....4 more years from now and McDonald's will still be here.

Went to MCD twice recently, once at the airport waiting for my flight the other time at a local place. I was pleasantly surprised, the services were better, faster, the places clean and I ordered the all day breakfast which I liked better than their burgers. Seemed like a lot of folks did that too. They really don't have any significant competitions for the all day breakfast offerings, so, I think MCD will be around 4 years from now.