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Get Ready For A Slug Of New Earning Reports

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...

If You Don't Know Anything About Snowflake Don't Feel Bad

It's one of those cloud based companies. I will tell you what they do, it's all kind of complicated. Even after you read this you will still not really understand what they do.
The stock is volatile and I have it on a watch list with other stocks like First Solar, Costco, Netflix, Moderna, Deere and Tesla. These are all stocks I watch with a passive interest and usually take more of an interest in them around the earning report seasons. Of all of the stocks on this list Snowflake is the one I am least connected to. What insights can I bring to the table about what is happening with this company or the industry it is in? None really. Ask me about Tesla and that's an entirely different and facinating story. Some of my best option trades of my life have come from playing options on Tesla. Now back to Snowflake. It had an earnings reports come out before the bell opened this morning. Here is it's one day trading chart the day before which was somewhat unremarkable. Insider's were not jumping in to play the upside before the close. That to me is somewhat impressive.
Now this, a look at it's previous quarterly earning report numbers .
They look pretty good to me. I note that other stocks have recently done well on poor earning reports. So here is todays one day action after their earnings report came out in the "pre-markets".
A big jump on the opening and the 170 Calls, and other Call options jumped up. Look at how high the 170 Calls jumped up to.
Pick fifteen or twenty stocks you find of interesting and watch how they trade on their earning reports. Keep reading little blogs like this to get a flavour of how I appraoch things. It's all very much a self learning experience. Tell your friend about this site and brain storm with them as to what might happen next. You might be smarter than you think when it comes to what might happen next. Here is how Snowflake closed out the week.
Now it's 30 day chart.
Now look at this. You could you now buy the one week 177.50 Calls for next week and sell aginst them the 180 Calls. (It might be to late now make that trade). Spend money to purchase the lower priced Call option and pull in a slightly smaller credit by selling against that position a higher "out-of-the-money" Call. Spreads are something you might want to learn about. Here is how these two series closed on Friday. More about this techique to come. I will keep you informed next Friday as to how this position turned out. I think Snowflake will have a good week given it's strong earnings report.

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