Caterpillar Calls Rock
They keep going up. Yet this morning, a Monday morning the DJIA is down. Can you fight a strong stock or are you just throwing money into the wind? Deere, Caterpillar and Boeing are all also on an upward terror. Now a look at these Caterpillar Puts at 10:41 a.m. which expire at the end of the week. The open interest in this series of Puts going into todays trading session is zero. What about the action in the Calls. Are option traders playing them? Well yes and no. The 630 series of Calls have almost doubled on in price on the day but the volume of trading in them is not all that inspiring. Now let's go back and look again at the 642.50 we looked at back at 10:41 a.m..Here is how they closed out the day. The D.J.I.A. index never came back. Shown above is Caterpillar's one and five day chart. Is this "step-up" chart formation suddenly starting to crumble? That's the question. Tomorrow openings will likely see Caterpillar up or down $5.00. Maybe this time, ...
