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Boeing And Tesla On A Nervous Opening

Boeing's chart. It's Calls that expire this Friday. A flat five minutes on the opening. Tesla, now 24 minutes into the opening is also deciding what it wants to do in this space. The Tesla Calls expire tomorrw while the Boeing Calls don't expire for four days. Here now is a look at the Tesla Calls with the same striking price which expire this Friday. They cost more than double to purchase however this printout is 25 minutes later after the stock has rebonded over $3.00. What attracts me to these two situations? First they both dropped a chunk in price on the previous day. Boeing has a cloud over it's head with rising oil prices and concerns about the debt the country is piling up on defense spending and Tesla is caught up in SpaceX coming soon news which is getting a lot of attention. It's a case of buying on the dips and discounting the possibilities of the bottom falling out of both of these stocks. Now a 10:30 a.m. look at these same Boeing and Tesla options...

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...