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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 ...

So What Can Happen With One Day Options (Friday Options) On The Day That The Djia Closes Up Over 400 Points?

 First, here is how the markets closed on the day last on June 27th 2025.

In recent times that is happening more often than you think. Let's look a these following five stocks

1) Walmart.


They were up 135.29%

2) Fedex.

Of coarse these ones were "out-of-the-money". Here are the "near-to-the-money"  Calls where the risk were less and the gains not as spectacular.
Still not a bad gain but a much safer trade.

3) McDonalds. This stock is beat up as of late.


A 194% gain on the day. Can you see how we are not looking at obscure stocks.

4) Carvana

These Calls were slightly "out-of-the-money" Look at the low and the high.

5) Boeing. 


Here is an extreme price increase. 10,400%. You don't see that very often.
Now here is another Boeing Call option with a lower striking price, something more conservative option players might find themselves in. The rewards were also impressive.



I could go on with countless other examples. Now look at this. A screen shot of  pharmaceutical stocks I am watching on one screen.. Can you see how so many stocks traded on the same day in the red?

One day Call options on any of these stocks would have failed. By the same token look at the negligible gains and small losses in all of these auto stocks on the same day.  Gains on the day like $.01, $.04, $.07 and $.17. One day Call options on stocks in this sector would not have worked. Even the darling stock Tesla failed to take off on a day the DJIA was up 431 points.

So what really is my point in writing this blog? Well anyone with a distain for looking at "one-day-until-expiring-options" should wake up to the reality that this type of trading is not about throwing darts at a wall. There is work and risk taking involved in picking the winners of the day.

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