CAT Puts

Look at this one strange opening trade price. The indexes are down massively on the opening. Now Big Bear. It's five day chart. Now the opening option trades. Trading at $.13 cents. What's that all about? It's fear in the premarkets where trades that don't make sense can happen. The fear was amplified by Monday being a holiday, meaning three days with no trading. Sharp traders know how to buy into this action. Let's watch what happens to these options this week. Here we are 35 minutes later. Proper pricings are now in place. Red Cat Call options also tanked on the opening as did other stocks. Early trading in it's Calls happened at low prices. Indexes down 700 points on the opening are tradable. Look at how the markets closed and at how Big Bear options ended up trading on the day. THEY HIT A HIGH OF $.32.

I am getting some flack from people saying I should have called this site CatCalls and not CatPuts. Oh well, I saved money by going with name Catputs. Now this. Caterpillar closed at $647.18 on Thursday and jumped to $655.54 at 9:47 a.m. on Friday morning. Then it dropped to 641.44, the low of the day at 10:43 a.m. which was 56 minutes later. That's a massive price swing. Looking for price swings on one day options are not normal trades to be thinking about. I get that Look at how this one series of Puts reacted. Option trader as I have often mentioned are afraid to play options on Caterpillar as it defies logic and continues to go up in price. It has an earnings report coming out at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday January 29th. Try and listen to their conference call. Profits may not be as rich as some people are expecting. Input costs have risen. Now let's look at the 650.00 Puts to see how they traded on the day. So few traders attempt to trade in them. Look at the super low open i...

Let's start with a five day chart on Friday morning. Tesla on todays opening is tradng flat. Is that good or bad if your'e looking for a buy in situation. Doesn't a flat opening tell you to stay away? O.K. stay away and come back to it a lunchtime. Now this. Here we are at noon. Nothing much has changed. Well you could have made good money if you bought Puts around 9:45 a.m. and got out around 11:00 a.m.. What do you think is going happen next? Go up, down or not do anything in the next couple of hours. The deadline to get out is at 3:00 p.m.. Do you have the desire to try this? But first, here is how what the DJIA index is doing.. What now really needs to happen is to have the DJIA index kick up to help drag everything up. That's what happened yesterday to Tesla as the indexes gained about 165 points on 36 minutes. Let me quickly show you how yesterday's Calls jumped. That's the kind of movement Tesla is known for. Now let's get back to today's ...

When a stock drops over $50.00 in the first three hours on trading one a day and when the DJIA index is up can you play it for a one or two day partial rebound? $9.00 or nine hundred dollars gets you in. That's the question now being asked and based on the number of new Call contracts being purchased the answer is probably no. As of 11:50 a.m. I can't find any news to explain this drop. Now this, if you just came off a morning gain from trading Tesla Calls, see my last blog might you be willing to part with some of these winnings? This could be another short term opportunity given that the D.J.I.A is so strong. Lets check out the action in thirty minutes. The stock is up $3.81 and the Call options went from $9.00 to $11.80 in thirty minutes. Do you take the money and run? Very few traders are speculating in this series of Calls. There is the danger that in this kind of situations that a second shoe could drop at any minute. Yet the DJIA continues to remain positive. That sho...

Would you be willing to purchase an "out-of-the-money" Call option on Tesla with one day to go? How far out you might ask? Well $5.00 out is the answer. ... Most short term option player's would not find value with doing this trade simply because it has the appearance of being a flip of the coin type situation. Yet most short term traders also know how explosive this stock can be. Why not wait until 10:00 a.m. on Friday morning with the thoughts in mind about catching slightly "out-of-the-money" Tesla options looking for a reversal? That kind of seems at times to be a sweet spot in the markets. The temptation associated with this current situation is that the stock could creep up a couple of dollars in the next few hours of trading if the indexes start to go up. That action could be tradeable. Yet then again option trading on a Thursday is generally not a sweet spot in the markets to be in. Let's see what happens. The pricings on these Calls does look attr...

Deere is a very difficult company to play short term options on. Nor do many option traders try to. Let's start with these two charts. A five day chart followed by a one day chart as we approach noon hour today, a Wednesday. .... ... Now a look at these two series of Puts which will be expiring this Friday. The 512.50 and the 510.00 Puts. These are thinly traded options with the built in worry of having a wide spread between the bid and ask. In some ways that doesn't matter, knowing that a ten dollar swing would not be out of the norm. More concerning however is the size of the spread on these next sightly "out-of-the-money" Puts. With spreads this far apart they would be difficult to buy into and sell out of without getting gouged. No one is giving away free money. Here now is how it closed the day. Our reference point as to when we first started looking at this situation was 11:37 a.m.. Here now is how the $512.50 series of Puts closed the day. Basically these Pu...