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NIO Could This Be The Real Thing?

Do you know the company? The stock first came to the DJIA back in 2018 at $6.25 a share and no it doesn't pay dividends. It took off. Here is it's share pricings dating back to when it first got listed. A lot of people got burned. Here was an overseas company boasting of having the fastest electric car in the world. Zoom went the stock and then it crashed. Now this. Today it had news. A quarterly earnings report and for the first time it turned a profit. That was a suprise.The new question is can they continue to do this or was this event just a splash in the pan? Look what happened this morning. This is a five day chart. Look at these 9:46 a.m. Call options and the 4:00 p.m. options. ... So this is a situation where you can buy in after the release of good news and still get out in the day at a profit. Imagine if this news came out on Thursday afternoon just after the closing bell? Inexpensive little soon to expire "one-day" Call options would shoot to the moon....

Disappointment on The Opening - Caterpillar Earnings Report

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Caterpillar's earnings report. What I see is 4th quarter sales up 23%. Strong 4th quarter earnings of $3.71 per share.That's a solid number. Just think, the supply chain issue isn't being used as a mistake. Now look at the the opening options market. The stock is down on the news. Management made a few remarks about near term headwinds. They do that sometimes to temper growth expectations. These two quotes are the 205 Call series which expire today. One is at 9:44 a.m. and one is at 10:03 a.m.. They would be very dangerous to consider purchasing since its very unlikely that they could ever shake off this downward spike so early in the morning. So now what? It's at this time in the morning when the decision to reacte to this bad news gets tricky. The stock is down like ten dollars and the DJI is having a good day. There is a strong tempation to jump in on the upside hoping for a quick reversal. That's one of the things that makes option trading so difficult. One...