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Caterpillar - Catching A Reversal On A Monday

Mondays are not the best of days to look for reversals however Caterpillar jumped upwards a modest amount which impacted the value of this series of Puts. The Puts are off about 50% on the day at this point in time. This is a 1:36 p.m.readout. Here is it's five day chart. Now its one day chart. It's Puts. Why consider them? It would seem like kind of a random thing to do. 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 all of last weeks business articles talking about how Caterpillar could potentially benefit from all this new AI movement. Caterpillar afterall builds heavy equipment which can be used in the construction of nuclear reactors. Notice that the five day chart is in an uptrend and notice the small open interest numbers in the Puts. That's understandable. No one wants to hold Puts on Caterpillar when it is in this...
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Five Day Options on Tesla Can Readers Looking At This A Year Later Gain Anything From This?

First a Monday morning August 12th premarket look at Tesla. First a thirty day chart.
Tesla has a lot of moving parts which means that no matter how much you study the dynamics of how it operates you never can predict which way it is going to move next. Here now is a look at this coming Friday's 200 series of Calls and Puts. These numbers show closing Call prices of the closing markets last Friday.
Do they look kind of expensive? It looks like you need a price swing of at least five dollars over the next five days to make any money trading them. What a daunting challenge. Let's move forward. Let's look at the days closing numbers on these two series of Calls.
Notice how the open interest number in the Calls is unchanged. These numbers will only be updated before the following mornings openining. Now the Puts. There are always more Call than Puts outstanding.
Now lets jump into the action on Tuesday morning at 11:49 a.m. . Tesla is jumping up.
Now here it is now at the end of the day.
Now think back to the start of the week when the 200 seres of Calls where trading at $560.00. Day traders, take your money and run.That's what daytrading is all about. It helped that Musk had an interview with Trump which was widely watched. The two seemed to be able to work together. For Tesla that's a good thing. Yes you can sometimes buy Telsa Calls on a Monday morning. To be continued. *** The next day which is Wednesday July 14th. Here is how Tesla in trading in the first 30 minutes of trading. Sitting in Telsa calls for to long is never a good idea.
What's next? Thursday. Look at its chart and the 200 series of Calls we started with. Not every week goes this well.
Now Friday's end of week readings.
Tesla was up $16.12 on the week.

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