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Suspicions About Market Manipulations - Caterpillar Options On The Opening With Their Last Day To Expiring Options

Caterpillar executives take note. You have leeches using your companies stock to suck out money in a systematic way. Let me explain. It's ingenious what they are doing and at the same time somewhat laughable. In the next couple of paragraphs I am going to show you something that is going to change your thinkings of how you should be looking at the markets. Let's start with Caterpillar chart of last Thursday with Friday being Good Friday and a day the markets are closed. This makes them one day or last day to expiring options. What do you see? I see a stock that sold of on the morning and then rallied and then petered out the rest of the day. Nothing to out of the ordinary one might say. Now this. The low of the day was at exactly 9:45 a.m.. In a blog I did two days ago entitled "Caterpillar Puts On A Thursday Morning With Friday Being A Holiday" I was tracting the 720 series of Puts. Here is a printout I showed watching how they traded on the opening. The high for ...

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...