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Caterpillar And Deere Calls And Puts Have Become Octopuses

Traders are now afraid to trade them and rightly so. Look at how low the open interest in the slighty "in-the-money" Caterpillar Call and Put options are going into todays trading session. An open interest of only 52 and 72 contracts. It's the same thing for Deere. ....... This time open interest numbers of only 71 in one series of slightly "in-the-money" Call options and only 20 in the Puts. Now their five day charts. Note the $20.00 drop in Deere in one day. Moves like this can sometimes happen quickly. With all this information we can now move forward. Look at how the Call options traded on these two stocks on Wednesday morning. After looking at them a few comments can be made. ... These initial gains of 46% and 21% are somewhat impressive. As the morning progressed the gains only got larger. Let's now look at the Caterpillar Call options at 12:49 p.m. The stock is up $9.68 and the Call option we are following are now up over 80%. ........... Wh...

Rivian and V.W. Partnership News and Trading Rivian Call Options Between 3:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. On The Day Of That News

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There was fresh news that we will tell you about shortly and this is how the 14.5 series of Calls on Rivian were trading at 3:11 p.m. today, a Wednesday. This is mid week news and these particular Calls will be expiring in two trading sessions. Why try to play something that short term when you are late to this party? Only insiders selling would be profiting on this news. Unfortunately that's just the way the system works. Now this. You decide. I think it has the legs to go higher. Now the news which caused the stock to jump. Notice that Rivian cracked the $16.00 range in it's early morning trading only then to sell off to the $14.36 range at 3::11 p.m. Traders jumping into this morning frenzy using short term Call options as a vehicle would have of overpaid and are stuck now in a dangerous situation. This no longer is a good short term story. Friday is only two days away. Yet there is a chance that the last h...

Day Trading Costco On A Early Monday Afternoon - And Then Following The Action For The Rest of The Week.

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The options on Costco that I am about to show you don't expire until the end of the week and here is the current one day chart on Costco. It's a Monday. What do you think of this chart? Will it go up or down next? Nobody knows. Here is what the DJIA is doing? Is the stock now hitting a point of resistance? Once again, it's really to early in the week to tell. There is an "open interest" Put number from the previous session of only five contracts. Traders as of the close last Friday had no real interest in playing it down. Recent history of course tells us not to buy Puts on Costco. Why try to go against an upward trend? Why then does this chart catch my attention? It's the leverage I know the options on this stock offers. Stocks in this price range can drop five or ten dollars in only a matter of an hour and the week still still has 29 hours of trading time to go. Could buying in here now on the downside be a good short term trade? That's the questi...