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Caterpillar - Catching A Reversal On A Tuesday

Tuesdays are not the best of days to look for reversals however Caterpillar jumped a modest amount which impacted the value of this series of Puts. This is a 1:36 p.m. readout. Here is it's five day chart. Now its one day chart. It would seem like kind of a random thing to do and why fight a strong stock? One reason is that the markets are only mildly up and could give back some of it's gains before the end of the day. Caterpillar could be gaining strenght based on last weeks articles talking about how Caterpillar could potential gain from this new AI movement. Notice that the five day chart is in an uptrend and notice the small open interest numbers in the Puts. No one wants to hold Puts on Caterpillar when it is in this uptrend. Could it has a soft selloff in the next two hours? Here it is now 50 minutes later. The "bid and ask" are almost unchanged. There is also not much change in the DJIA index.Now this. The DJIA is sellig off and Caterpillar is hanging ...

Ford This Morning After A Biden Speech

What an opening chart!
Here also is a different chart showing how Ford closed the day yesterday.
It's the very same chart minus this morning's spike. It's amazing how a Presidential speech the night before can help to move the markets in certain stocks in this price range. Now lets look at how this affected the 17 series of Calls.
What do you see in the above printout? At 2:17 p.m. yesterday before the speech the Ford 17 Calls were trading at .24 cents or twenty four dollars a contract. I was watching them. Now look at what they are trading at this morning, the morning after the Biden speech and look at what where they were traded at the end of the day.

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