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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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Ford - It's Shareholders Are Not Happy

Warranty work costs on older vehicles costs money. We are not talking older-older vehicles but ones that are like two and three years old. Some warranties extend that far out. That's one of the reasons the stock is said to have declined in price. Now look at how the stock traded last week after their second quarter earnings report came out.
Here is what Al Root says about things.
Then there are a host of lawyers now trying to stir up the pot saying that Ford shareholders are getting short changed. They really don't have much of a case. What luck have lawyers had trying to stir up the pot for shareholders of the electric car company called Faraday Future? Not much. If you have the guts to play stocks or options on automobile companies you have to learn how to take the pain.
Tomorrow is going to be another new day and Fords next challenge is to get rid of a whole bunch of excess new inventory. More discounts will have to be offered. The bottom line is that investors got excited about the stock last month for a variety of reasons, only to get beat up. Now might be a good time to buy the January 2026 $11:00 series of Calls and just forget about them for five or six months.
If you want to go even further out here is a look at the $11:82 Jan 2026 Calls. That will buy you a crazy amount of time.
The bottom line is that Ford is not going to go away and their factories are still humming away. ** Now a second look at the January 2025 Calls two days later. Notice the open interest number is starting to go up. Last weeks tumultuous price drop is now history. Or is it?
Now an August 1st update. The D.J.I.A was down over 700 points at one stage of the day.
Now this.
Now Friday morning August 2nd. Another massive hit in the markets. Down 4.5% in earning morning trading. That doesn't happen very often.
These six month out Calls continue to drop.
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I can't tell you what to do but people still like their trucks. Now a August 19th update.
The interest in them is slowly picking up.

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