CAT Puts

There is always news. War news. News on gas prices and news that Costco is trying to sue the government over tariff monies. Two weeks ago I mentioned a situation with Super Micro Computer. That stock really got beat up when a company officer was arrested. Now that news is slowly being shrugged off. Now this, the car leasing company Avis has a story. To better help explain what is happening let's look at it's five day chart. . What's going on? Articles are appearing saying that stocks in this sector are being boosted by TSA Airport chaos. Yet there has to be more news than that. Look at it's latest five day chart. Now here is how the 170 series of Calls last Friday closed out the day. On that day the stock closed up $20.35 dollars! Other stocks in the same sector remained calm. The stock is now in nose bleeding territories. Obviously options on this stock will be hot potatoes this week. Here are two "near-to-the-money" series of this weeks options to look...

Caterpillar executives take note. You have leeches using your companies stock to suck out money in a systematic way. Let me explain. It's ingenious what they are doing and at the same time somewhat laughable. In the next couple of paragraphs I am going to show you something that is going to change your thinkings of how you should be looking at the markets. Let's start with Caterpillar chart of last Thursday with Friday being Good Friday and a day the markets are closed. This makes them one day or last day to expiring options. What do you see? I see a stock that sold of on the morning and then rallied and then petered out the rest of the day. Nothing to out of the ordinary one might say. Now this. The low of the day was at exactly 9:45 a.m.. In a blog I did two days ago entitled "Caterpillar Puts On A Thursday Morning With Friday Being A Holiday" I was tracting the 720 series of Puts. Here is a printout I showed watching how they traded on the opening. The high for ...

"Vinfast" blogs tend to cause a spike in readership. The last blog I did on VinFast was back on April 1st last year entitled " Another Blog on "Vinfast". At that time the stock was trading at $4.70. Now it's at $4.54 up $.44 cents on the day.The company seems to have strong backers with 2.34 billion shares outstanding with 97% of them held by insiders. That gives them the ability to control the stock's price. The second company I want to talk about is "Nio". The last blog I did on Nio was back on March 10th called "Nio, Could This Be The Real Thing". Nio at that time was trading at $5.69. Before that I did a blog on it on February 5th entitled "What do you think is going to happen to "NIO" On The Opening". The stock at that time was trading at $4.71. It has 2.53 billion shares outstanding with 0% owned by insiders and 14.8% owned by institutions. In contrast Ford has about 4 billion shares outstanding however they...

I didn't catch it but it was there for the taking. Options on Tesla are one of the world's most actively traded options. Tens of thousands of these contracts trade everyday. It's best to trade them using only recently made profits. At 1:20 p.m. Tesla was trading at $366.00 and then forty two minutes later it was trading at $360.05 That's a $5.95 drop. It's one day chart shows us that move however it is barely noticeable. It had larger drops than that earlier in the day. Here is it's five day and one day charts. Here is a better one day chart. It's drop starting around 1:20 p.m. is more noticeable with this chart. The Call and Put options expire at 3:00 p.m.. Now this. This chart shows us the timing that these Puts jumped in price. So here is a question. Who is going to be stupid enough to be playing around with Tesla Puts that expire in less than two hours? The answer is traders clued to their computer screens watching these options go from $1.00 to $1.25 ...

First it's five day chart going into the opening. Now it's one day chart showing a modest selling pressure towards the close of the day. Is this dip towards the closing a precursor to Caterpillar opening lower? It's difficult say. Here is how two series of it's Puts closed the day. .. Notice the low volumes of Puts and think back to how Caterpillar was trading over $50.00 lower only two days ago. To me these Put options don't truly reflect the volatility of this situation. Now here is how these two series of Puts traded on the following opening. .... I don't understand why more traders didn't see this coming. *** Here is a more detailed look at how Caterpillar traded on the entire day. The low of the day was at exactly 9:45 a.m. or fifteen minutes after the market opened. It's kind of a suspicious number. Read my April 5th blog which investigates this thought further.

It's Wednesday and Exxon has had its's biggest dip on the day in a long time. The DJIA is up. Here is it's chart as of 1:27 p.m. Now it's Calls that expire tomorrow. The trading volume on these contracts is relatively light. Retired U.S. Generals are coming forth and saying Trump has no strategy and just wait until more soldiers get killed. Yet four hours ago and three and two hours ago Exxon was trading at higher prices. Why now? Why an interest in looking for a rebound? Chevron is also down over $11.00. Let's also look at it's Calls. This time we are looking at Call options $2.00 or so "out-of-the-money". These are both high risk trades. Picking a bottom is never an exact science. Let's see what happens. Now this around 2:25 p.m.. Notice a slight rebound in both of these stocks. ... To be continued. This new situation might keep you up all night. A late night report might help. Here is one. Let's see what happens. Now for the Thursd...