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Home Depot. Towards Recognizing The Potental Of Step Up Chart Formations.

You have to be quick on the opening. It's a Tuesday. It's five day chart has a spike up formation. The last day on the above five day chart is today's trading action. Here now is it's one day trading chart as of the close on Tuesday. You had to buy in early, really early on the opening dip. So the stock closed Monday at $346.09 and on Tuesday sixty seconds into the mornings trading action (which was 9:31:00 a.m.) it was $344.31. Then at 9:32:00 one minute later it was at $343.80. That's an opening drop of $2.29. Now look at this one series of Call options. A low of $375.00 at 9:33 a.m. and a high of $750.00 at 9:56:00 a.m. This is a case of playing a "step-up" chart formation. It helped that the D.J.I.A was up 537 points on the day. Buying in on early morning dips on a stock with a"step-up" chart formation sometimes works.

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...