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The Appetite For Caterpillar Options Going Into An Earning's Report Is Quite Small .

Let's start with this. Caterpillar has an earnings report coming out on April 30th. You should listen to it. It's not going to be difficult to find. Now look at these how these two series of options closed out the week. The Calls are just "in-the-money" and the Puts are just slightly "out-of-the-money".The cost to play the upside with one week options almost equals what it costs to play the downside. That's kind of strange as usually the Calls cost more to purchase than the Puts. Both are super expensive however Caterpillar as of late can jump $15.00 or $20.00 dollars in one day. When I say super expensive what do I mean? 2,690 means $2,690 Americian per contract. That is not chump change. You would have to have a very strong conviction it was going to move one way or another before you would want to jump in. Yet there is bigger problem. The current price of the stock is in a nose bleeding territory. Look at it's one year chart. Is it really doing ...
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Do You Have To Be A Wizard To Play Exxon Mobile Options? You Decide.

Look at this chart. It's Exxon's one day trading chart of last Friday. Zoom,zoom, zoom.
Here is it's five day chart.
Shipping oil on the high seas is becoming more of a game of cat and mouse. Some ships regularly change their flags and their colors. Looking at the above five day chart on Exxon Mobile would you want to be holding this weeks 135 Calls starting the trading session on Monday morning? Here is how the 135 Calls closed the week.
Now this, the premarkets on Monday morning.
You can't trust these numbers. Sometimes the hype burns itself out before the markets open. At some point in this process the following news was being assimilated.
Now this.
Exxon jumps on the opening but not that much and quickly gives up some of that gain. Now this.
The Calls are up 25% in the first three minutes of trading. That's something but not all that bad if you bought into this series of Call options during the closing seconds of Friday's trading session. Are traders now rushing in to buy the Puts?
Not really. Exxon Mobile commands respect. Now this at 9:57 a.m. Exxon is now down.
Making money on Exxon Mobile Calls and Puts requires you to be in the zone. *** More on being in the zone. Tuesday morning.
Exxon has a small spike on the opening and the Puts trade down.
Now this chart as Exxon gives up some of that gain.
The Puts change in price.
You can see how this action never stops. Exxon went on to close the day on the upside again.
Exxon never sleeps.

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