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Two Hour End Of Week Option Trading On Tesla

I didn't catch it but it was there for the taking. Options on Tesla are one of the world's most actively traded options. Tens of thousands of these contracts trade everyday. It's best to trade them using only recently made profits. At 1:20 p.m. Tesla was trading at $366.00 and then forty two minutes later it was trading at $360.05 That's a $5.95 drop. It's one day chart shows us that move however it is barely noticeable. It had larger drops than that earlier in the day. Here is it's five day and one day charts. Here is a better one day chart. It's drop starting around 1:20 p.m. is more noticeable with this chart. The Call and Put options expire at 3:00 p.m.. Now this. This chart shows us the timing that these Puts jumped in price. So here is a question. Who is going to be stupid enough to be playing around with Tesla Puts that expire in less than two hours? The answer is traders clued to their computer screens watching these options go from $1.00 to $1.25 ...

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...