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$Caterpillar Calls On A Day The Stock Goes Up $41.00.

Let's start with it's five day chart. Today is Thursday. Here is what the DJIA did on the day. Here is what it's "near-to-the-money" Calls did. What stands out to me? Only 37 contracts traded and an open interest in this series of Calls of 36. This series of Call options expire tomorrow. What about the next week out Call options with the same striking price? How did they trade? It's unusual to have a higher open interest number. What about the longer term Call options, the ones thae expire near the end of July?. There is no real interest in them. What about the "near-to-the-money" Puts that expire tomorrow? Once again the action in them is next to nothing. If the stock gives up half of what it gained today these Puts would triple in value in one day. Now here is Caterpillars "year-to-date" chart. Holding one day to expiring or one week to expiring Call or Put options on stocks like this in the $900.00 price range attracts little in ...
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Roku Jumped in Anticipation Of A Good Earnings Report

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Only to fall again. Look at this five and thirty day chart. ................................................... Yet thats only part of the story. Look at it's year to date chart. How bad was their earnings report? Do you think their pain and suffering is all now behind them? The stock is down 38% on the year. All I know is that they still seem to be making a pile of money. On a different note and in a different industry a stock named "First Solar" was stuck in neutral a few months back because interest rates where to seemingly high and companies in that industry were cutting back on the size and number of projects they were working on. Since that time and for whatever reason the stock in on fire. Both Boeing and Caterpillar also crashed last week on earning report releases. There seemed to be a hint of danger present in both companies releases. It's almost as if there was a domino effect. Next question? Why is Netflix gettng beat up? Look at it's chart. Is ...
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Caterpillar - It's First Quarter Earnings Report And Traders Are Staying Away. A Read Which Might Be A Good Reference Point Going Forward.

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Boeing rallied yesterday on the release of it's earnings report only then to tank. Caterpillar is tanking this morning in the premarkets. Let's begin with it's 5 day and 30 day chart. ... The world needs to be rebuilt and Caterpillar is there to help. It's growing, it's got a good reputation, it's not laying off employees and it's doing just fine. If it misses a beat on it's earnings report so what? Life goes on. Then there are those pesky analyst who are known to offer a convoluted spin on things. If you like Caterpillar just buy it on the dips and put it away. So the markets will be opening on the commentary by the companies C.E.O of "sales about flat". Phrasing it that way is a recipe for short term disaster. ..... The two printouts above show some of the early morning action in one Put series and in One Call series. What happened the next day? A slight rebound with next to no traders trying to capitalize on a rebound. What does this tell ...
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