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The Markets Never Stop. The Stock Lowes And Forward Looking Thinking.

An earning's report came out and some of the reason's the stock dropped made sense. Let me tell you what happened and why. Lowe's sold off in price over $12.00 in one day on an earnings report. How bad was the report? Well that is something that is debatable. Some people would say that past sales are not a good indication as to what might happen next. Not many option traders attempted to trade in it. Some traders derive more pleasure in playing the rebounds after these types of announcements come out. Here is what their C.E.O said. It is her job to try to put was a positive spin on things. Every word she uttered was well rehearsed. Lowes and Home Depot are always difficult to play because their stories can be spun in so many different ways. On a different note, the Put options five dollars "out-of-the-money", which were the 265 series of Puts were a cheaper and a more profitable way to play this action than the 270 Puts. Yet then again, if the stock only dro
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First Solar

Remember in previous blogs I made mention of the EV industry experiencing a bit of a stumble over range anxiety issues. Then Tesla launched their new truck last week and reported they had a million orders for it. Suddenly the range anxiety issue seemed to disappear. Well the same thing was happening to the solar power industry. It was being reported for a few weeks or so that rising interest rates was keeping new customers from buying solar panels and companies from building out solar powered projects. First Solar sold off yesterday. Here is it's one month chart and a 2:32 p.m. look at the 155.00 and 152.50 Puts. The volume of trading on them was next to nothing.
Now the 155 and 152.50 Puts in the afternoon.

 Now here is the thing. When a stock starts to fall who knows when it will stop falling.  Other stocks like Netflix, Deere and Snowflake also trade like this. Big moves in short periods of time. Now look this chart. It's two days later.
Look where the stock is at now. It's below $145.00.  The 155 Puts are up 400%. Now for a one day chart to see where it closed today, December 7th
Would now be a good time to look for a reversal? Here is it's year-to-date chart.
This is a chart which could go both ways. It's 82 percent owned by institutions and can move on no apparent news, or news that retail players can't sniff out. Back in April it had a nice move.. All I am really trying to say is that option traders look for the breakouts on stocks like this. The light volume of option trading part of this story doesn't bother me. It's actually something I  appreciate. I don't like trading options on stocks like Apple where everyone and his brother is following the same action with a sense of confidence.. First Solar is known to surprise in both directions. * A Friday morning report.
A pop. Now here is the proof in the pudding. Look at the number of contracts traded in this series of Call options.  To be blunt, the someone wants to be in on this action. Who else trades options in blocks of 100?

Now look at it's chart a few weeks later.
* Let's now jump ahead to July 27th, 2024.
The one year out Calls is where the action turned out to be.

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