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First Solar. Part Two And Visa And Walmart.

Back on Thursday I said don't hang onto First Solar Calls going into the Friday trading session after it dropped mid week about $30.00 in one day. Why be stuck in a one day option position just after it had a major drop? Revisit that blog if you like. Now let's move forward to Monday afternoon on January 12th. Here is how First Solar is now doing. It has had a bounce. This time we are looking at it's "this-weeks", Call options. Notice the open interest number? Those were mostly all positions opened up last week by forward thinking option players. Now this. Visa. Last week Trumph suggested after the markets closed on Friday that he wants to cap interest rates on credit cards at 10% for one year. Today is Monday afternoon. Look at Visa's one week chart. Visa dropped $10.00 on the Monday opening, in reaction to this news. Now look at the action in the 340 series of Calls. Lets better look at this activity from a different perspective. Traders who bought Call o...

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...