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Caterpillar Up Almost Eight Dollars in The First Hour Of Trading

What's the DJIA doing? How is the chart on Caterpillar? Isn't it true most of us would just stay away and forget thinking about purchasing Puts. Here now are the "near-to-the-money" Puts. Now the further "out-of-the-money" Puts that will only start to reacte with a sell-off of three or four dollars. The volume at this point in time is greater in the "near-to-the-money" Puts however they are both scary from the point of view that there is nothing on the near term horizon to make them change the coarse of their direction they are now on. Early buyers in this morning were hoping for an early morning market reversal. It didn't happen. Now this, about 50 minutes later. The Puts have become more affordable. Caterpillar at 11:35 a.m. keeps inching up. Now a 11:38 a.m. look at the 350 and 345 series of Caterpillar Puts. I like the 345 Puts now in the one dollar range. Here is it's five day cart. I think a Tuesday afternoon dip is possible. Y...

Something Is Happening With Deere Calls.

You don't see this very often. I follow Deere options. First it's five day chart.
Now a look at the 410 Puts which expire at the end of the week. There is nothing strange about this. A few traders got in to play the downside.
Now the 410 Calls and what do you see?
819 contracts traded in the first ninety minutes of trading on this series of Calls that expire at the end of the week. A number of contracts this large tells us something. Or does it? Let's investigate further. Let's look at the volume of trading in the Deere Calls one striking price higher.
Why aren't more traders jumping into these ones if someone likes the 410 series so much? In the same sort of way why aren't traders jumping into next weeks Call options given the apparent spike in these Calls?
Now a check with "Yahoo" at noon to make sure these reported numbers are correct. Yes,the volume of Call options traded is now 855 contracts. More typical numbers would be 10 or 20.
Something happening here is strange. Earnings don't come out until prior to the markets opening on November 21st. Now here is how the same 410 series of Calls closed the day. They were way down.
To be continued.
Now this.
Now todays five day chart.
So what happened? What was all this smoke and mirrors all about? 1,045 Call contracts traded on the day in the 410 series of Deere Calls that expire on Friday but the "open interest number only went up by 116 contracts. Someone wasn't buying the 410 Calls on the crazy day of hugh trading. Someome was selling the Calls and buying them back before the markets closed on that same day!Forget the heading "Something Is Happening With Deere Calls" Someone with a fat bank account was out selling Calls and not buying them to make more money. Talk about swimming in a sea of sharks.

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