Caterpillar Reports This Week
Caterpillar builds things the world needs. Rivals are few and far between. Here is how Caterpillar traded last week. It was down $4.35. The stock has had a good run in the last while. Option traders seem to stay away from playing options on Caterpillar. This stock began a major move upwards back in September. Now we are in a situation where Caterpillar's quarterly earnings report will be coming out this Thursday morning before the markets open. Typically when this happens the stock moves up or down like $10.00 to $20.00 in the first few opening minutes of trading. This time should be no different. Analyst have already weighted in their opinions of what the earning numbers will look like. Here is how two series of options (one series of Calls and one series of Puts) closed on Friday Oct 24th. These two series of options still have one week of trading life left in them. ...... Both the Calls and Puts are super expensive. Bad news could rock the stock for like $15.00-$35.00 per sha...
