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Vinfast and Nio

"Vinfast" blogs tend to cause a spike in readership. The last blog I did on VinFast was back on April 1st last year entitled " Another Blog on "Vinfast". At that time the stock was trading at $4.70. Now it's at $4.54 up $.44 cents on the day.The company seems to have strong backers with 2.34 billion shares outstanding with 97% of them held by insiders. That gives them the ability to control the stock's price. The second company I want to talk about is "Nio". The last blog I did on Nio was back on March 10th called "Nio, Could This Be The Real Thing". Nio at that time was trading at $5.69. Before that I did a blog on it on February 5th entitled "What do you think is going to happen to "NIO" On The Opening". The stock at that time was trading at $4.71. It has 2.53 billion shares outstanding with 0% owned by insiders and 14.8% owned by institions. In contrast Ford has about 4 billion shares outstanding however they p...
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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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