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History Tells Us That Pfizer Might Sell Off

Here is how Pfizer traded over the last five trading sessions. $24.00 to almost $26.00 is a large move for this stock in such a short period of time. That doesn't happen very often. Now this, a look at how this stock has traded in the last three months. Here is what this one series on "in-the-money" Puts that expire on Friday are now trading at . So what's going on? Well their is one drug stock that is leading the pack today and helping to drive up the prices of many of the stocks in this same sector. Eli Lilly is on a bit of a terror. Now the same Pfizer Puts on Thursdays opening. Notice how much they fluctuated on the day? Now here is how they closed out the day. These options have one day of life still left in them. What a tough game to play. Now here now is the important part. Look at how these Puts traded minute-to-minute on the day. Getting in around 10:00 a.m. and out anytime in the afternoon was the best way to play it. It helped that the markets crash...
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Caterpillar. It's Biggest Jump In One Day This Year

First, here is what the markets did today.
Now this.Look at the high and low on these options today. All Call option holders were rewarded beyond belief. These are the moves option players dream of. It's instituational money flexing their muscle.
This also.
This too.
Now what? You can't fight it and you can't buy in. Deere also is having a nice five day run. It's not that anything special is happening with these two companies.
Eight days ago in a blog I gave the example of how I bought a "330" series of Caterpillar Calls for two hundred and fifty five dollars. Had I bought the 330 series of Calls at that time with one more week of trading life in them they would have cost about $450.00 dollars. Today they would be worth over $3,200.00. This is not rocket scientist stuff. It is just something that has happened.

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