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Chasing The High Volume Trading Stocks. "Big Bear Ai"

Big Bear Ai (BBAI). Odds are you never heard of it. Last week it closed at $6.06 up $.38 cents. It's a military Ai play. Look at how it traded in the last five days. Look at the volume of shares traded today. Almost 84 million shares! That's not a mistake. A junk stock with no earnings you might say on the verge of having a meme stock status. Yes. I am embarrassed in a way to be talking about this stock when I normally write blogs on trading options on stocks like Deere. With Deere some series of their options only trade like 19 contracts on any one series of it's options on any given day. Should option traders be trading in options on stocks in the $5.00 and $6.00 dollar price range? Sooner or later this stock might crash and burn. I shouldn't really be saying this. One of the things I do know is that this company doesn't even generate profits yet. Also, back in May this stock was only trading in the $2.50 range. Is it's story feasible? There are massive amou...

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...