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The DJIA Index Down over 900 Points With An Hour Left In the Trading Session.

If it wss down 600 points at this time in the trading session and not down over 900 points you might expect to see a slight rebound in the final half hour of today's trading. That doesn't seem to be the case. The over 900 point drop in the indexes adds an element of scare. Now Caterpillar which is down over $19.00 on the day. Would this be a good time to catch it for a rebound? Is has being a particularly strong stock as of late. Might it be one of the first stocks to rebound after today's train wreck of a day? Look at the 625 Calls that expire at the end of the week. Only five contracts have traded on the day. Traders are not rushing to buy back into it looking for a strong close. Yet they are more interested in the Call options on it about ten dollars "out-of-the-money". They cost less but will be slightly less sensitive to only a one or two dollar rebound. They need more of a bounce in the stock's price. Here they are. Now here is Caterpillars one day ch...

Tesla And The Play Of The Week - An Easy Read.

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Here is Telsa's five day chart. Can you see how it spiked to the upside on Friday morning before it tanked? Can you see how as the day progressed it dipped down to the support level of the $210.00 range? Here is its one day chart. Now this. Lucky in all this action are all those individuals who purchased one day Puts on Telsa in the first few minutes of trading. Look at how these Puts reacted. The lows of the day happened in the first few minutes of trading. Look at the pecentage gains. In the last example a $1.00 option went to $190.00 in one day. Catching one trade like this could make up for twenty bad trades. What's all this talk of Ai trading? Moves like this could blow up the exchanges if thousand of trading platforms could recognize this could happen. This was one of the best option trading opportunities of the year.