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A Random Walk In The Park On A Monday Morning. A Caution. Monday Mornings Are Often Not An Option Players Best Friend

Let's start with this. It's now 10:26 a.m. A bet on Caterpillar rebounding by the end of the week. There are no takers. Why have to watch the screen for the next four days in agony waiting for a rebound which if happens is just a "break even trade"? But Wait. I made a mistake. The market is actually now down 668 points. What else can we look at? Interactive Brokers. These kind of stocks always do poorly on days with the threat of margin calls. Yet there is something interesting about the printout I am about to show. It is that these options are "one-month-out" Calls. These longer term options trade differently than short term options. (these options trade in one month intervals). If the stock we are following stops it's freefall the value of the options will nudge up ten, fifteen or twenty percent. A seven dollar option Call might creep back up to $8.00 or $9.00 at which time it could be sold. In contrast with a five day option a slight reversal in ...

One Analyst Pays A Visit To A Company Shop

.As the title says one analyst pays a visit to a company shop (he has a big bag of junior stocks to research and write about) and walks away starry eyed. Only in Canada.
Here is the stocks five year and one year chart.
Here are the January 2024 Call options.
Thirty dollars down to two dollars a share, what a ride for investors. So many "let's go electric" companies have had to go back to the well, often many times to ask for more money which dilutes the stock price. See my previous blogs on this company. Retail investors have no stomach for these kinds of stocks which have had a poor track record of providing meaningful guidance. Yet the macro winds are changing as our governments are going all in. Consider this.
The world is going electric and little companies like Lion Electric are fighting for a piece of the action. So many electric vehicle stocks have disappointed. Names, in a random order like Polestar - PSNY, Fisker - FSR, - Lordstown - RIDE, Lucid LCID, Sono Group - SEV, Mullen Automotive MULN, Livewire Group - LVWR, Electrameccanica - Solo and Faraday Future Intelligent - FFie (.21 cents trading 58.3 million shares on Friday). The lazy way to play all this is just to buy Toyota and be near center stage of this electric vehicle ride.
One final note. On August 17th I wrote a blog on Taiga Motors, a Quebec electric snowmobile company and the National Bank had an "outperform" ranking on it. Guess what? Here it is now.
Go figure. *** Which company would I be scared of going short most? Well maybe Taiga Motors. Trail blazing companies such as this one sometimes run out of money as they go up the ladder of rising costs on the dream of getting finished products in high demand shipping out their rear doors. Honestly, I know nothing about this industry other than to think the bigger producers in this field are or only a season or two away from having a version of the same thing and have dealer networks and more marketing skills.

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