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The stock Ford reports 7/30/2025 (Post-Market). In a July 2nd blog I did Ford talked about their June sales. Here is something I posted in that blog. Ford jumped $.50 cents on news of an increase in sales and this is how this one series of Calls (which were "out-of-the-money" with one day to go) jumped. This upward moment in price was like an once in a 100 day occurance. So will earning's be good this quarter? Has Ford's recent good news story now lost it's importance. It's only natural to be forward thinking. General Motors has earning report coming out before the market opens this Tuesday. The two stocks sometimes reflect the same market momentim. G.M. seems to have a lot of inventory sitting on dealer lots and popular You Tube scream that the car industry is now about to crash. Here is how things for G.M. are lined up to go. It's stock had the jutters all week. Investors are getting tired of hearing about consumers buying new at pre-tariff pricings...
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G.M. and Tesla. Both Surprised. So Did Ford.

G.M. is pumping out vehicles and people seem to be buying them! Against that backdrop is that they are losing market share in China.
Falling interest rates should help car sales. Does that mean that the Ford stock will also jump? They report October 28th. Look at it's 30 day chart and year to date chart.
They have a history of earning suprises with some being not so good. Here is how the 11 series of Calls traded on Ford on Friday Oct.26th on next weeks 11 series of Call options.
As these prices the stock would have to jump 40 cents on the week to make these Calls think about coming to life.Here is what happened.
Now there is Tesla which reported their earnings after the markets closed on Wednesday Oct 23th. Here is how it traded on that day just prior to earnings report. The open interest numbers were quite low as sometimes we see like 150,000 contracts trade in one one series in one day.
So the 212.50 series of Calls closed at $9.28. Now look at this chart and the closing price one day later.
Now look at the $212.50 Calls today. Up 418%
This kind of a spike doesn't happen very often. It was the trade of the week. Do I like paying earning report using options on automotive companies? Yes, the action is usually short and swift.

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