CAT Puts

I don't know if it is going to work. Buying a Call and an offsetting Put on the same stock with the same striking price with two days of trading life left in them. The logic is to sell one of the two if it gets a double or more, (hang on as long as you can), and earn a free ride in an offsetting change of direction. Look at this five day chart and you might see how this train of thought developed. Now a look at one Call series and one Put series. These options both have two full days of trading life left in them. Here is it's five day chart which looks like it might break out. It really takes a share price move of over $2.00 quickly, to make this a fun experience. Options priced in the $1.00 range can suprise. It also could be a total bust. Let's follow this action and see how it all plays out.Thursday morning. Here is the early morning action. The Puts really performed. Can you sell out of both postions and take a profit. Hold that thought. Might it go lower? Here is ...

How did this stock get this high? What happened to the worries last summer that tariffs rising raw material would crush their bottom line? What happened to the worries that management commented on during their last few quarterly profit reports. Now look at Caterpillars five day chart. Caterpillar reached the $1,000.00 per share mark for the very first time. Yesterday the stock had a powerful one day surge upwards. Are some people now thinking that the stock could move even higher?. Think about this. Other stocks have also recently reached this threshold. Let's look at a three year chart on Costco to see what it's stock did after reaching the $1,000.00 dollar level for the very first time. Between January 29th and February 3th in 2024 the stock went from $979.00 to $1,022. Then on February 13th it reached $1,072.00 to only then fall back to $927.00 on March 12th. These are big numbers flying around. Let's move on to Eli Lilly and visit it's "reaching the $1,000....

It's symbol is SPCX. It is my opinion that in the near term Tesla options will be more playable than these new the Space X options. Playing options on Tesla over the last few years has become a comfortable experience for many traders. They have a personality. Often times the stock will jump or fall ten or more dollars on the day and there seems to be an endless scource of fresh news as to what is happening with this company. What's happening with it's German production, what's happening with it's sales number in Australia, what's happening new models coming out and new self driving features? I doubt in the near term if the news on Space X will be as engaging. I could be wrong. All I know is that Telsa's last day to expiring options often offer roller coaster rides. But wait, as we all know there is a new kid on the block. Space X options are now here. Same management, different company. Traders don't know what to expect. Here is how it traded on Thu...

The war is over so says Trumph and both of these stocks jump on this good news. Here are their one day charts. First Tesla. It closed at $406.43 and jumped to over $412.00 in the first four minutes of trading. Now look at two series of it's Calls, Calls that expired this afternoon. Once again, the best action of the day happened in the first four minutes of trading. Nvidia also spiked on the day. This time we are only going to show one series of it's Calls. The D.J.I.A. was up on the day. The markets don't get much better than this. It's also a case of getting outnwhenever you see a profit. In this case the big money was made by option traders purchasing Tesla "Calls" on Friday that expired today. Go figure with Space X doing so well.