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Caterpillar And Deere Calls And Puts Have Become Octopuses

Traders are now afraid to trade them and rightly so. Look at how low the open interest in the slighty "in-the-money" Caterpillar Call and Put options are going into todays trading session. An open interest of only 52 and 72 contracts. It's the same thing for Deere. ....... This time open interest numbers of only 71 in one series of slightly "in-the-money" Call options and only 20 in the Puts. Now their five day charts. Note the $20.00 drop in Deere in one day. Moves like this can sometimes happen quickly. With all this information we can now move forward. Look at how the Call options traded on these two stocks on Wednesday morning. After looking at them a few comments can be made. ... These initial gains of 46% and 21% are somewhat impressive. As the morning progressed the gains only got larger. Let's now look at the Caterpillar Call options at 12:49 p.m. The stock is up $9.68 and the Call option we are following are now up over 80%. ........... Wh...

Caterpillar Earning Report Plays

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So tomorrow is the big day when Caterpillar releases it's second quarter earnings report. It is expected to be good. Boeing just had a great earnings report yesterday and analyst are expecting Caterpillar to also report decent numbers. Let's look at the five day trading charts on these two companies and this mornings super strong premarket indicators. (It's always good to be selling into strong premarket indicators because history tells us that they never stay strong forever). It's July 29th and Caterpillar's earning report is tomorrow. Ford also just had their earning reports and good new also on that front. So far so good? Good news everywhere right? It's only good news if you can capitalize on it. What am I implying? Well I don't want to digress to far off topic however option trading can be an exacerbating experience. I missed the Boeing and Ford trading opportunites despite the fact that I anticipated both of these two companies would do well. Do I...

The Trade of the Year

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It's not that complicated however it kind of slipped under the radar. It was a big name company we all know called Lowes. The payoff was wild. What are we looking at? Options that closed on Thursday at ten cents a contract and opened at one cent the folling morning, a Friday which then then hit an interday high of one dollar and fifty cents. A one thousand dollar investment would have went as high as $150,000.00. Folks, all of this is legal and anyone can play it. You could have made it all by lunchtime. What happened? Well we are talking about the 200 series on Calls that expired yesterday on Friday July 23th. At the start of the trding session they were over $3.00 "out-of-the money. Very few traders saw value in them. Yet Lowes did close strong on Thursday the day before it. Then it wobbled a touch on the Friday opening and resumed it's upward charge. The price of lumber is dropping and many people are waiting to purchase lumber at these new lowering prices. The kicker ...