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Ford Motor Company "Calls".

The one week chart tells the entire story. A thirty day chart adds more detail. Moves this large seldom happen over such compressed periods of time. Look at how these two series of Call options traded on Friday. Back on May 6th I did a blog called "Ford Motor Company Calls On The Week" and in that blog I showed this chart. Back then it was still the same story. Also of note is the fact that Ford is not doing particularly well in their quest to churn out more vehicles. I think this stock will now take a breather. Anyone playing thirty day options on Ford during this time period will be up like three or four times on their initial investment. Naysayers take note. Opportunities do happen. Traders are even finding value in 2028 Ford option Calls! Now Hertz. Might car rentals pick up in the next month as summer months approaches? Yes gas prices are up however summer is when many people take vacations and want to hit the road. Flying is now getting expensive. Renting a car is...

Caterpillar Earning Report Plays

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So tomorrow is the big day when Caterpillar releases it's second quarter earnings report. It is expected to be good. Boeing just had a great earnings report yesterday and analyst are expecting Caterpillar to also report decent numbers. Let's look at the five day trading charts on these two companies and this mornings super strong premarket indicators. (It's always good to be selling into strong premarket indicators because history tells us that they never stay strong forever). It's July 29th and Caterpillar's earning report is tomorrow. Ford also just had their earning reports and good new also on that front. So far so good? Good news everywhere right? It's only good news if you can capitalize on it. What am I implying? Well I don't want to digress to far off topic however option trading can be an exacerbating experience. I missed the Boeing and Ford trading opportunites despite the fact that I anticipated both of these two companies would do well. Do I...

The Trade of the Year

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It's not that complicated however it kind of slipped under the radar. It was a big name company we all know called Lowes. The payoff was wild. What are we looking at? Options that closed on Thursday at ten cents a contract and opened at one cent the folling morning, a Friday which then then hit an interday high of one dollar and fifty cents. A one thousand dollar investment would have went as high as $150,000.00. Folks, all of this is legal and anyone can play it. You could have made it all by lunchtime. What happened? Well we are talking about the 200 series on Calls that expired yesterday on Friday July 23th. At the start of the trding session they were over $3.00 "out-of-the money. Very few traders saw value in them. Yet Lowes did close strong on Thursday the day before it. Then it wobbled a touch on the Friday opening and resumed it's upward charge. The price of lumber is dropping and many people are waiting to purchase lumber at these new lowering prices. The kicker ...