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Boeing" And "Tesla" On A Nervous Opening. Both Are Worth Watching

Boeing's chart. It's Calls that expire this Friday. A flat five minutes on the opening. Tesla, now 24 minutes into the opening is also deciding what it wants to do in this space. The Tesla Calls expire tomorrw while the Boeing Calls don't expire for four days. Here now is a look at the Tesla Calls with the same striking price which expire this Friday. They cost more than double to purchase however this printout is 25 minutes later after the stock has rebonded over $3.00. What attracts me to these two situations? First they both dropped a chunk in price on the previous day. Boeing has a cloud over it's head with rising oil prices and concerns about the debt the country is piling up on defense spending and Tesla is caught up in SpaceX coming soon news which is getting a lot of attention. It's a case of buying on the dips and discounting the possibilities of the bottom falling out of both of these stocks. Now a 10:30 a.m. look at these same Boeing and Tesla options...

"Lucid" Reports It's Earnings.

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There was not to much of a suprise but maybe a floor price has been reached. The stock is now down considerably and vehicle orders are now expected to tick up. A new more affordable EV is being launched this year that will cost less. Investors were nervous going into this report and the stock as of late has being in a precipitous slide downwards. It's going to take a day or two to process this fresh news. The EV industry is taking it on the chin as of late. Part of the good news is that Lucid is not using the word "burn rates" They also seem to have access to more cash going forward if needed. Both Lucid and Rivian are now appearing to be more fiscally responsible. Yet we now have to wait another full quarter to confirm such a suspicion. Shown above is it's five day chart and below is it's one year chart. In previous blogs I have talked about three, four and five dollar stock's and options on them. They can sometimes suprise. Is this one of those moments wh...

Earning Reports, " Rivian" And Next "Lucid " To Soon Report."

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Vroom, vroom, vroom. Well they are electric. They don't vroom that much and that's a good thing. Rivian is not going to go away and their trucks of many designs are out working everyday. While Rivian is not going to go away it is still burning through a pile of cash and is planning a shut down of one of their lines for the retooling of a more affordable model sometime this year. Sales seem to be plateauing. That's not a good thing for start up companies to be worrying about. Here is it's current position. Trump is not being kind to electric automobile makers. China has labor costs of like $6.00 an hour or less and is selling their electric vehicles all over the world. Why, one might ask is North American so focused making consumers pay for their grossly overpriced product offerings? This can't go on forever. Now this. Rivian had a few bright spots last year like when V.W. stepped in to be a bigger partner of sort however it's lastest quarterly earnings repor...

Trying To Make Sense Out Of John Deere.

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Last week Deere dipped on a lousy earning's report but rebounded. I wasted part of last Friday watching the stock going up, to timid too play it for the upside and yet smart enough not to try and play it to the downside. Deere afterall is 68.58% owned by institutional investors who pay big bucks to get the best and the lastest insider's reports. They were told the stock should go up. Here is a five day chart as of February 18th around 11:00 a.m. which is now two trading days after last Friday's big rally. The stock continues to go up. . How lousy was it? It was really bad. Caterpillar also recently had a really bad (not just poor) earning's report. The economy is on the verge of a recession. Farmers are not buying tractors. Read this. Scary stuff right? Sales down 30% year over year. "A shaky backdrop for consumers". Shaky is not an inspiring word for an executive of the company to be using. With new tariffs on the way and steel prices on the verge of costing...