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These are not new companies and these companies are know to beat their own drums. Making money is not a short term mandate. Look at the three I am mentioning. Now their three month charts. When one company has good news it tends to be a victory for all three companies. ............. I often talk about how exciting it is to play options on stocks in the five and ten dollar range. Here are three examples. But first what are the markets doing at 2:10 p.m. on a Monday? They are down. Here is this week's "end-of-the-week" Call options on Acher. Now unusual Machines and Joby. All of these option series were caught off guard. In all fairness trying to catch moves on these stocks with a one week time frame is a losing game. The thirty day time frame is more appropriate. Spend some time reading about all three of these companies. Stocks in this price range are somewhat speculative however all three of these companies are working on creating avaition history. On a d...

Cat Puts, No Cat Calls

In a past blog Caterpillar averted a strike and it was noted that the stock jumped to the moon on that news. Caterpillar has a large following and likes good news-made in America stories. Biden avoided his government running out of money late Thursday and on Friday the stock Caterpillar jumped to the moon. It opened higher and kept going up.There is no looking back now at what happened.
My May 29th blog talked about how Caterpillar had slight bounce last Friday morning and the light volume of option trading on it. With the stock going sideways to down all that week playing Call options on it was out of fashion. Things changed on Friday June 2nd. Caterpillar bounced. So here now is a look at how two "out-of-the-money" series of Call options traded on it on Friday.
Look at the open interest numbers going into Friday. Two hundred and ninety one contracts. Nobody saw this jump coming which is so strange. Once again they were very light. Few traders were expecting the news to come when it did. This blog could now go in many directions. Last week both Caterpillar and Boeing struggled on the week and option trading volumes dried up. My attitude was not to trade, to wait for better days. I should have known better, the system is a little bit corrupt. Insiders could gain the most from a late Thursday release of good news. A one day pop in the next days options. That is what happened. On Friday the D.J.I. was up over 700 points. The one day options on Caterpillar were star performers. It was the trade-of-the-year on Caterpillar Calls. It doesn't look like any of the 100,000 or whatever the number of brokers and analysis there are out were clued into this action. So strange. * Also think about this. Caterpillar has something like 109,100 employees. They should learn to be part of this action.

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