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CarMax Puts?

 Here is the number. Call in to listen to their just released quarterly report. You won't have to talk to anyone. It is 800-839-1247. In about five days this link will disappear. Please listen to it. I listened to all of it once and to the first half of it two times. What I learned is that their retail car sales on the quarter compared to the same quarter a year were up 6%. They purchased 336.000 vehicles from the public, up 7% and 48.000 from dealers up 38%. Their average retail sale price was $26,100, down $400.00 per vehicle from last year. They doubled their share buy back program. AI technologies are now helping them operate more efficiently. Everything seems positive. But wait, we are talking about  the used car business and what could happen if consumer confidence suddenly starts to wain? Look at it's three year chart. It now sees to be hitting a rough patch.  Now a one month chart.  All of this talk about tariffs and what level of tariffs will be imposed on n...

How Was Your Week Trading The Market?

With all the ups and downs it's hard to figure out what is going on. Look at these three stocks and the options on two of them. 1) Chargepoint. One series of calls on Chargepoint went up 58% yesterday in one day. It was a strong day for the markets.
2) Blink
Here are it's recent numbers and the company is big on self promotion.
The third stock I want to comment on is one called Wallbox. First a five day chart and then later a 'year-to-date chart'. I am not crazy about this stock because of the trading range it seems to be stuck in. It will only take off if it survives and starts to make money. Do your own research on this one. WallBox also scares me because of it's Barcelona" address. If it ends up merging with someone else you will be lucky to get your money back. My ongoing interest all three of these stocks is that the "range anxiety issue" that consumers seem to have for electric vehicles is slowly starting to go away. Even Trumph is now thinking that going "partially" electric is O.K...
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