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Exxon On A Major One Day Dip. Will Trumph In His Usual Way Add To The Confusion After The Market Closes? That's The Bet

It's Wednesday and Exxon has had its's biggest dip on the day in a long time. The DJIA is up. Here is it's chart as of 1:27 p.m. Now it's Calls that expire tomorrow. The trading volume on these contracts is relatively light. Retired U.S. Generals are coming forth and saying Trump has no strategy and just wait until more soldiers get killed. Yet four hours ago and three and two hours ago Exxon was trading at higher prices. Why now? Why an interest in looking for a rebound? Chevron is also down over $11.00. Let's also look at it's Calls. This time we are looking at Call options $2.00 or so "out-of-the-money". These are both high risk trades. Picking a bottom is never an exact science. Let's see what happens. Now this around 2:25 p.m.. Notice a slight rebound in both of these stocks. ... To be continued. This new situation might keep you up all night. A late night report might help. Here is one. Let's see what happens.

Ford - Earnings Come Out This Week. The Action on Monday - Thursday - This One Is A Good Read.

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It starts off slowly.... a storm in the brew. Earning reports are coming out for a multitude of companies this week. G.M. is one and a day later Ford. Rising rates means lower vehicle sales. But what's going to happen when the first 25,000 Ford electric truck drivers start to tell their friends about them? It's one of the weeks of the year many odd balls like me look forward to. So much can happen. It will be quite a ride.Here is where the 13 series of Calls and Puts are trading at 9:42 a.m.. Notice the bids and asks are tight which I like so that every ten cent move in the stock's price sets them off in different directions. Here now is what it's five day chart looks like now at 10:05 a.m. going into an earnings release this Wednesday. Ford didn't move all day and here the closing Call and Put readings. Now here is the news going into Tuesday's markets. Now a look at the Ford options twenty minutes after the opening bell. "/> It is interesting to...