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Ford Is Expected To Open Lower

Let's jump right in. It's Monday morning and here is how the 12 series of Ford Calls that are expiring this coming Friday are starting the week. The "bid-and-ask" on the stock was down about $.05 cents in the premarkets. The markets are sometimes slow to get going after a weekend. If the stock opened lower in sympathy with the markets opening lower, how low could this $.27 premium trade down to? Would they then be a good buy if they dropped to like $.19? They do afterall still have five full days of trading like left in them. Now this, today's action. It was nothing to crazy. The stock only moved up $.03 or three cents on entire the day. This printout is not pretty but it tells you a lot of stuff. 1) The low of the day. It was $.11 or eleven dollars a contract at around 11 a.m. Yes the stock sputtered a touch, then it moved up again. 2) Look at the high of the day, $.27 or twenty seven dollars a contrct which is over a double from the low of the day. 3) I am not...

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...