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Lowe's Trading At 9:35 a.m. On A Friday

"After it happens written blogs" are not as interesting as "live-action follow this now" blogs. I realize that. Look at Lowe's trading at 9:34:59 on Friday morning. During that second 932 shares traded. The stock was at $202.21. Then at 9:35:00 a.m., in that second 24,370 shares traded. It's new price was $202.85. That's a $.64 cent increase in only one second. Why would that happen? Could it be A1 trading at exactly the 9:35:00 minute mark? I have talked about this before. Look at it's one day chart. Now look at how this one series of Calls, the 202.50 Calls that would be expiring that day traded. Imagine catching them at 9:35 a.m. when they traded down to $.20. Notice how few of these Call options traded.
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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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