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Ford Kind Of Threw A Curve Ball With The Release Of Their Quarterly Earning's Report

First here is how the stock traded on the week. It's not very often you see a chart that looks like this after a company comes out with a quarterly earning's report. One would expect that if a stock goes up on an earning's report it will usually stay up. How good was it's earning's report? Yet sales were down 8%. All the while something else had happened. A few days prior Ford made this remark. Details of what this all meant were somewhat vague. Is Ford going to start transitioning itself out of the automotive industry? During World War Two Ford started building airplanes called the B-24 Liberator after first building the "River Run Bomber Plant". When Ford starts to talk about building something new the entire world listens. Isn't it true that the stock Caterpillar has also hinted of following a new path diversification? Here is what I am talking about. This "Ford Energy" notion came out only days before their earning release news. Was ...
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Ford - An Earning Report

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Ford is going electric, that's the buzz. We all know the story. Earnings just came out on the stock and the Call options jumped on the opening. If you were playing options you had to get out just after the opening. With option plays on earning reports that's usually the way to best way play them. First, I will show the prior day's action. There was a gap down on the opening and 94 million shares traded. That's a large number. People were cashing out after recent good times. Now here is a chart of Ford the next day and here is how two option series traded. Buy in at the close and sell out just after the opening. Look at how high each series traded up to just after the opening. The earning numbers were not all that great but it's the buzz about going electric. Ford is one of the better stocks out there to play earning report releases. ** Scroll up to the upper left and read my most recent blog on MacDonald's earning report.
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McDonald's And An Earnings Report

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I was sitting in the drive through line yesterday at McDonalds redeeming a free coffee sticker won from being there a few days prior. It was a long line up for mid-afternoon. I am not a fast food junkie. I found myself thinking of how the Domino Pizza stock was on a terror for much of last year but not so much now. When we were all locked in last year everyone was ordering their pizza. I was also wondered if they would now accept my little free coffee sticker as it was only thumbnail size. Then when I pulled up to the drive thru window I hit a patch of bees. Apparently for whatever reason they were enjoying being at that window. They gave me my free coffee. Boy it was busy there. I note in this option series that there were only 292 open contracts. That small number suprises me. Why didn't more option players see this coming?
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