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Caterpillar - Catching A Reversal On A Tuesday

Tuesdays are not the best of days to look for reversals however Caterpillar jumped a modest amount which impacted the value of this series of Puts. This is a 1:36 p.m. readout. Here is it's five day chart. Now its one day chart. It would seem like kind of a random thing to do and 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 last weeks articles talking about how Caterpillar could potential gain from this new AI movement. Notice that the five day chart is in an uptrend and notice the small open interest numbers in the Puts. No one wants to hold Puts on Caterpillar when it is in this uptrend. Could it has a soft selloff in the next two hours? Here it is now 50 minutes later. The "bid and ask" are almost unchanged. There is also not much change in the DJIA index.Now this. The DJIA is sellig off and Caterpillar is hanging ...
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Deere Again. Tesla's Call Are More Exciting To Watch But Deere Calls Are Also Somewhat Interesting

Seasoned option traders are a clever breed. Why? Well they know how to avoid traps meaning they know how to stay away from dangerous situations. Look at this current situation. Deere got clobbered today, Thursday October 3th. Down $7.80 on the day. Look at this.
What does this show? It shows the closing price of $3.30 that this series of slightly "in-the-money" Calls traded at, and it shows the number of contracts traded today on the day. Only eight. Once again, these are "in-the-money" Call options that expire tomorrow. Now this. A look at how these same Call options traded the next day, a Friday. Wouldn't you think that there might be some kind of a rebound after a stock dropped this much in one day?
The high on the day for these Calls was $3.50 a contract, an increase of only twenty cents from the previous day. My point once again is that option traders are a special breed who stayed away and resisted the impluse of trying to recapture some of the $7.80 that Deere lost on the previous day. Now a thirty day look at how Deere has traded. Up over $30.00 or one dollar a day!
Is Deere still in an uptrend? The drop of over $7.00 in one day on no news is a bit disconcerning. In previous blogs I have mentioned how playing 30 days Calls on Deere is the way to go. Now look at this "year-to-date" chart on Deere.
Are option traders who play Deere on a regular basis focused instead on purchasing next weeks Call options with the same striking price, or the Call options two weeks out? Here are the answers to those two questions.
Once again, few option traders find value with trading Deere options. Contrast this to the volume of trading on Friday on Tesla Calls about ten dollars "out-of-the-money".
They closed on Thursday at five dollars a contract and and hit an inner day high on Friday of two hundred and seven dollars a contract. Here is it's five day chart and look at the bounce it had on Friday morning.
Think of the stories that some traders would have on this kind of action. Who would have the guts to be holding one day Call options ten dollars "out-of-the-money" on Tesla on Thursday's closing market? Just by coincidence the caption on the front page of Barron's Oct. 7th states "Tesla's Turning Point". "Robotaxi Day" is happening later this week. Tesla options vs Deere options. You decide. Both are playable.

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