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Get Ready For A Slug Of New Earning Reports

The stock Ford reports 7/30/2025 (Post-Market). In a July 2nd blog I did Ford talked about their June sales. Here is something I posted in that blog. Ford jumped $.50 cents on news of an increase in sales and this is at how tis one series of Calls (which were "out-of-the-money" with one day to go) jumped. This was a once in a 100 day occurance. So will earning's be good this quarter? General Motors has earning report coming out before the market opens this Tuesday. The two stocks sometimes reflex the same market momentim. Here is how things for G.M. are lined up to go. Investors are getting tired of hearing about consumers buying new pre-tariffs. Things might start to slow down. All I really know is that the volume of trading in both the Calls and Puts are next to nonexistent. For this reason alone I would stay away. Tesla Puts and Calls offer a better ride for your money. To be continued.

Harley-Davidson

First, I am not a big fan of playing options on stocks in the thirty and forty dollar range. It's not like speculating in Boeing or Caterpillar Calls and Puts with these stocks swinging up or down two or three dollars nearly everyday. Harley Davidson is a thirty five dollar stock. Look at how it is trading so poorly on the good earnings news back at the end of April.
Now here is some of this news.
All the good news was wiped out by the forecasting of a bit of a slowdown in the second half of this year. Investors who bought in early this year when the stock was trading over fifteen dollars higher who correctly anticipcated this surge of earnings must now feel so frustrated. Where are their rewards? Now look below and see where the January 37 Calls are trading at. If the stock gets above forty you would be in luck. That would buy you their next two earnings reports. By then management might see their business in a more favourable light. Yet the chart looks ugly and there doesn't seem to be a support level.* With most option positions "time value" works against you. When you purchase eight months of time and your reasonings for buying in turn out to be correct the time value can become your friend. It is however still a scary position to be considering.

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