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Space Exploration. A New Kid In town To Play Options On. A Stock Set To Build Out The Next Frontier.

Traders are looking at this situation with the eyes of children looking at a big roller coaster. Wouldn't it be fun to try it out at least once? The price of admission looks pretty reasonable. The stock got beat up in the last few days. .... The argument could be made that it's difficult to play a stock with so many moving parts. That argument could also be made about playing Telsa options. Yet it's difficult not to be impressed by the stock's volatiity. Let's see what happens this time.
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Disappointment on The Opening - Caterpillar Earnings Report

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Caterpillar's earnings report. What I see is 4th quarter sales up 23%. Strong 4th quarter earnings of $3.71 per share.That's a solid number. Just think, the supply chain issue isn't being used as a mistake. Now look at the the opening options market. The stock is down on the news. Management made a few remarks about near term headwinds. They do that sometimes to temper growth expectations. These two quotes are the 205 Call series which expire today. One is at 9:44 a.m. and one is at 10:03 a.m.. They would be very dangerous to consider purchasing since its very unlikely that they could ever shake off this downward spike so early in the morning. So now what? It's at this time in the morning when the decision to reacte to this bad news gets tricky. The stock is down like ten dollars and the DJI is having a good day. There is a strong tempation to jump in on the upside hoping for a quick reversal. That's one of the things that makes option trading so difficult. One...
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