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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 ...
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The Auto Industry Is Big on Self Promotion.

Look at this ad to purchase a Lucid electric vehicle. Going forward the consumer will have many EV brands to pick from.
Some people want the best of everything and these ones will appeal to a small slice of the market. The share price of Lucid is holding steady. Last week Tesla announced that their new truck model is now available and that they have orders for over a million of them. EV stocks were soft in the last month over the theme of range anxiety issues. Suddening the news of one million orders has cast that issue aside. G.M is another company beating it's own drum. It popped on news last week. The car maker boosted guidance and will buy back $10 billion in stock -25% of its market cap-and hike the dividend. It expects 2024 profits on electric cars. The stock jumped $4.18 to $32.36
Even Ford jumped, at least for one day. It changed it's guidance numbers.
Imagine playing the Ford ten series of Calls last week. Then there is Nio. Often times this year Nio made the top five weekly list or top ten list of most activity traded NYSE stocks. It's a company which has never make a profit but is hopefully getting closer to that target.
Shown above is a five year chart on this stock! What a tough ride for investors. But what if? What if it became the number 8th, 7th or 6th largest EV producer in China? That's what adds excitement to this stock. ( On the other hand what a dog of a stock it has being to own recently, that's why no one likes to talk about it). Some option players play options on this stock waiting for the monthly production numbers to be released as was the case today.
To be continued. Well maybe. * Here is how it is trading the very next day, December 5th. With so many moving parts there is always news about something.

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