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Walmart- Unexpected Simplicity In Option Trading

If it goes up you make money.The stock is in a sweet spot. Look at it's chart. I did blogs on Walmart on December 16th, 19th. 31st and Jan 7th and 8th. Stocks in the $90.00-$100.00 price range will swing a dollar or more everyday and the option series are set up in $1.00 increments. Those two factors alone are the key ingredients that draw me to this situation. Read my past blogs on Walmart to get a better sense of what l am talking about. Yesterday was a big day for Walmart options. Do you agree these options are playable? I think they are. They might need a few days now to cool off. Yet maybe in two or months my view about this one will change. Please my pass few blogs on this one to get a better handle on why I like them. Once again, I think it's in a sweet spot.
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A Surprise Caterpillar Jump on a Friday That Option Players Missed.

The action on Caterpillar on October 21st, 2022 defies logic. Here is it's five day chart showing Friday's action. Read On.
In the past I have said that it's stupid to be buying Call or Puts just before a Thursday's closing that expire the next day in anticipation of a rally or a sell off that day. The future market was down big time between 8:00a.m. and 9:00a.m. and then the markets opened flat and then took off. Look at how these for series on Caterpillar Calls traded on the day.
$.16 to $510.00
$.05 to $250.00
$.01 to a high of $.67. In hindsite, the tip off to this possibly happening was in the premarkets turning from negative to positive in a short period of time before the opening bell. This kind of action makes it difficult refocus. Now what I didn't show you was the 180 Calls. With the stock trading around 180 on the opening this is the option series you would expect most casual options traders to be playing. Look now at the suprisely low volume of trading on this series of Calls.
Only 146 contracts in this series traded on the day. Why didn't more players jump in?

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