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Last Day Options - Tesla

If your new to option trading you wil not have the courage to play "last-day-until-expiring options". I get that. Perhaps a mid week option trade would be better. Find a chart pattern that looks interesting and buy yourself a three day ride. Or safer yet, buy an option on Friday at the close with five days of trading life left in them. Correctly picking the right directional movement over such a time period would instill a feeling of confidence in what you are doing. If you fail in such an adventure what would I advise you to do? Give up? No. Study harder. Now let me throw this one at you. Here is a recap of a blog I posted yesterday where an option trade doubled in price in just less than ten minutes. In all fairness most newbie option traders would not be purchasing "out-of-the-money"Call options which expire in only a few hours. What I am about to say may sound a tad stupid. If you want to jump into the world option option trading Tesla is one of the top stocks...

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...