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"One Day Options" With Both Tesla and Nvidia Having Options On Them Which Expire Today

The war is over so says Trumph and both of these stocks jump on this good news. Here are their one day charts. First Tesla. It closed at $406.43 and jumped to over $412.00 in the first four minutes of trading. Now look at two series of it's Calls, Calls that expired this afternoon. Once again, the best action of the day happened in the first four minutes of trading. Nvidia also spiked on the day. This time we are only going to show one series of it's Calls. The D.J.I.A. was up on the day. The markets don't get much better than this. In this case the big money was made by option traders purchasing Tesla "Calls" on Friday that expired today. Go figure with Space X doing so well.

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...