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Caterpillar Is Misdirected.

It's five day and one day chart. It dipped on the opening this morning and the 'buy-on-the-dips' mentality won again. Like a $7.00 interday jump in one series of it's Call options as witnessed on the second chart below. Now it's 30 day chart. This is madness. How can a stock keep going up? Now this, a chart borrowed from a Caterpillar blog I posted on December 26th. That wasn't that long ago. It tells a different story. It shows Caterpillar dropping thirty dollars in one morning! So here we are now in a situation where Caterpillar is up $30.00 in three trading sessions. So here we are in the premarkets on Wednesday morning. Wednesdays can be good days for market reversals. Here are the 630 series of Puts that expire this Friday. The open interest in them as with all of Caterpillars options are very low. The stock given given it's premarket pricing is expected to open slightly lower than it's closing price. This $600.00 dollar pricing is in $U.S. ...

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...