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What does the word disconnect mean? As a verb it means "to sever or interrupt the connection of or between; detach". Option trading - one day options - is a disconnect from the world. What happens to slightly "out-of-the-money" Call options on Costco when the stock shoot up thirty dollars on the day? I will show you what happened on Friday to Costco Calls and the options on a few other stocks I frequently watch. What a disconnect from the real world. But before that a look at how the indexes traded. 1) Costco. It's five day chart and a look at how three of it's option series moved upwards in one day. You may not know how to read these printouts but try to read the highs and lows on these option pricings. One printout shows an "at-the-money" option which means you are buying a contract on the stock, good for one day only at a locked in price equal to (or very close to) what the stock is currently trading at. The other two contracts shown are ...
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January Blues and News on Taiga- The Opportunity to Tap Into 90 Dealerships

Here is the list of auto stocks I watch. All are down this morning.
It's difficult to think about playing the upside. It's also difficult to play the downside. Caterpillar is struggling. It dropped today. Analyst are always busy looking in their rear view mirrors to explain what is happening. They now say that Caterpillar is exposed to the slowdown in China. That's not really a fair assessment of the overall big picture. It recently had a nice run up.
Boeing is entering into a cup formation.
Moderna was $86.00 back at Christmas and jumped to $115.00 on Jan 8th only now to settle back down again to $96.00.
Then there is Nio an Ev maker. They are expanding their sales into Europe. I often talk about this stock as it trades in very high volumes and has a huge following . A few years back it traded five times higher in price than it does now. It's product line is now much improved. The stock however is now crashing. There seems to be to much focus on monthly production numbers.
Nothing is being spared in this massive grubbing and jumping in now hoping for the start of a reversal doesn't seem to be a smart approach. Times will however change. ****
Now news on Taiga. Electric watercraft. This will keep them busy.
Why isn't the stock jumping upwards in price? One reason is that the potential of these new orders will force this company to raise additional working capital. They seem burn through money quickly. That plus why are they trying to build two different product lines at the same time? Maybe they should focus on only one product. A few years back this stock was $10.00 per share and now when things seem to taking off it's down to $1.00. If the watercraft division takes off this company might have a bright future. As a general rule I don't like Quebec based companies. It's still very much a wait and see situation.

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