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$Hertz. Sometimes One Month Out Options Can Be Your Very Best Friend

One month until expiring options can be your very best friend. This time however we are looking at options on a stock in the five dollar range which are less predictable in nature compared to stocks in higher price ranges. The pace in trading them can be slower. Case in point is Hertz. View the following information. First it's trading chart today followed by it's five day chart. ... They are July 17th options and you can see how they had a slight pop on the opening. One of the things I like about this situation is how it's peirs in the industry are trading on the day. Now this readout. Notice the high of $.77 earlier in the morning. Let's move on to Tuesday morning. All three of the stock's piers are up. Whether it's drone stocks or drug stocks or auto retailing stocks it helps when the sector your'e trying to play is in agreeance with you're line of thinkings. Once again it is. Now this. Chat GTP would advise you from staying away from positions li...
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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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