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Caterpillar Jumps On The Opening

Can you fight it? ... Why would you want to? It's not like the Stellantis opportunity we had on Monday morning. Is the stock running out of momentum? Now this less than an hour later. Caterpillar takes a hit. When Caterpillar goes up $30.00 in fourteen minutes and you catch it on the downside just take it and run. I will show you below how it closed the day. Now a trading comment. It's difficult to fight rising stocks and in hindsight the answer to Caterpillar's meteoric rise would be in holding it's thirty days Calls purchased in the recent past. Today's situation was a mid week option trade, the day of the week I have often said to be the day of reversals. Caterpillar jumped on no news and Deere just sputtered along. It's largely insituational trading and various analyist are bullish on the stock. If this kind of a jump happened on a Thursday or Friday I wouldn't be trying to play it for the downside. This was a one-off situation, something like t...

Ford - Earnings Come Out This Week. The Action on Monday - Thursday - This One Is A Good Read.

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It starts off slowly.... a storm in the brew. Earning reports are coming out for a multitude of companies this week. G.M. is one and a day later Ford. Rising rates means lower vehicle sales. But what's going to happen when the first 25,000 Ford electric truck drivers start to tell their friends about them? It's one of the weeks of the year many odd balls like me look forward to. So much can happen. It will be quite a ride.Here is where the 13 series of Calls and Puts are trading at 9:42 a.m.. Notice the bids and asks are tight which I like so that every ten cent move in the stock's price sets them off in different directions. Here now is what it's five day chart looks like now at 10:05 a.m. going into an earnings release this Wednesday. Ford didn't move all day and here the closing Call and Put readings. Now here is the news going into Tuesday's markets. Now a look at the Ford options twenty minutes after the opening bell. "/> It is interesting to...