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Ford Kind Of Threw A Curve Ball With The Release Of Their Quarterly Earning's Report

First here is how the stock traded on the week. It's not very often you see a chart that looks like this after a company comes out with a quarterly earning's report. One would expect that if a stock goes up on an earning's report it will usually stay up. How good was it's earning's report? Yet sales were down 8%. All the while something else had happened. A few days prior Ford made this remark. Details of what this all meant were somewhat vague. Is Ford going to start transitioning itself out of the automotive industry? During World War Two Ford started building airplanes called the B-24 Liberator after first building the "River Run Bomber Plant". When Ford starts to talk about building something new the entire world listens. Isn't it true that the stock Caterpillar has also hinted of following a new path diversification? Here is what I am talking about. This "Ford Energy" notion came out only days before their earning release news. Was ...

Deere and Company - One Of The Most Dangerous Series Of Call and Put Options to Play When There Is Only Hours To Go.

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If you have winnings from a previous trade sometimes you value that money differently. It's difficult to explain why but there are scholars out there who have written books on this very topic. It's like play money or free money that you can now use to make the wildest option trades you can think of. It's money you feel you can risk. It's like being a kid in a candy store with money in your pocket. Everything looks good.There are two stocks that I sometimes follow, Dominos Pizza and John Deere. Both have options available to trade on them however the Call and Put options on the first one, Dominos are near impossible to trade. Why? Well on a Friday morning with options expiring that day on it, how do you predict which direction the stock on the world's largest pizza company is going to go? The answer is you can't. The company is painfully aware that one news release about the price of cheese going up or problems with their ordering apps could send their stock int...