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There are times I feel safer playing Exxon options than I do playing options on other stocks. Why? Well today this happened and the options didn't move all that much. What the heck was all that stuff? It was information that flows. It's humbling to read it. There are so many parts in motion which somehow mesh together to create Exxon's price at any one momeent. What I like about trading Exxon is that when it moves, it moves quickly. That plus when it does move the options on them move a chunk at a time. That can be a good thing. Here is Exxon's five day chart. It's had some recent really big moves. I picked something difficult. Two series of options on Exxon that expire at 3:00 p.m. tomorow. Here is how they closed today, a Thursday. Let's be clear. This is not a situation I would like to be in. Which way is the stock going to move on the opening? I note that there are four times more Calls outstanding than there are Puts. It's not uncommon to see thin...

First Caterpillar. I can't make this kind if stuff up. .......... Only 136 contracts in this one series traded today.That's nothing. I have being commenting on these low numbers in recent periods of time. We hear the terminology "buy-on-the-dips". I didn't see that happening today. Deere the same thing however it's Call action was less inspiring.. Very few Deere Calls traded. Here is how the DJIA traded on the day. Now their thirty day charts. First Caterpillar. Now Deere. Look at Caterpillars one day chart yesterday. One series of options traded down to $4.00 to only then rebound to $23.00. That was the play of the week. Once again, Wednesdays like I have said fifty times before are the best days on the week to look for reverals on "one-week-to-expiring options". At this point in time I would skip playing the Thursday last "two-days-to-expiring options" on these two stocks and check back into the action on Friday to only look at T...

Wednesdays in the world of option trading can be days for market resets. This is the third blog I have done on this stock Big Bear Ai. Reference my first blog of November 18th blog if you wish. Here is how I introduced the stock back then. The stock seems to trades millions of shares each day. It's options have good liquidity. Here is it's five day chart. Now it's morning chart. The markets aren't doing very much. Now here are this weeks Call options, (well one series of Call options) are doing. . Can you see at how at 11.06 a.m. they are starting to move up? Now the closing day readings. Just get out. To make trades like this work the stars have to be lined up right. Read my past two blogs on this stock. With all the Ai trading why isn't the volume of options traded way higher? *** Here is the stocks five day chart on the week. Notice the spike in volume at 9:32 a.m. on Friday. The five series of Calls I was was tracking mid week went on to triple in price.

1) It's chart. 2) A look at how two series of Calls reacted to this news. This time around the volume of options in these two Call positions and other Boeing Call option positions spiked. What a poor way to be offering this kind of guidance. 3) The news. The exact wording of what was said by it's C.F.O. can be found on other news outlets. It wasn't presented in formal way or in a clear and professional manner. 4) Here is why the timing of this news was so welcomed. Here is Boeing's news from 31 days before. What a different story. One month ago Boeing dropped to $205.00 on this news. The bottom line to all of this is that this kind of "happy days" news is putting so many other stocks like Caterpillar in unchartered territories. It's all kind of like walking on eggs. 5) As just mentioned, Caterpillar today also jumped up on this burst of euphoria. Caterpillar didn't really have any good news of it's own. 6) Deere recently had a decent earning...