Edited by Peter Hillerberg1 min readStories are generated from ORTEX data and reviewed by the ORTEX team. How we publish
Two automakers are driving options activity this week. Tesla reports on 21 October and General Motors on 20 October. Both face a market reading hot inflation signals. US core CPI hit 339.3 in September, its highest print since the series began in 1997, per ORTEX Alt Data. The annual CPI rate reached 3.7%, the highest September reading in two years.
ORTEX Alt Data adds an unusual signal ahead of the Tesla print. German car registrations, which lead Tesla revenue by 43 days with a strong fit, are running 269% above the same quarter last year across all three months. For GM, the same dataset runs at plus 133%. Neither is a forecast of the reported figure, but the divergence between the two is the sharpest on record in ORTEX's backtest.
In options positioning, ORTEX screening shows 100% positive options flow over the past seven days for Trane Technologies, American Tower, and . All three are large-cap names with no earnings due this week, which makes the clean bullish tilt stand out.
On the other side, Moody's, Brookfield Corporation, and Illinois Tool Works each registered 0% positive options flow over the same period. Moody's is down 5.3% year-to-date and faces an earnings call imminently.
One more stock drawing attention: PG&E sits down 19% year-to-date. ORTEX NRC reactor data shows one of its reactors recorded output 10 standard deviations below its own history on 15 October. Its ORTEX stock score sits at 70.8. Analyst consensus implies 42.8% upside. Options traders appear to be watching.
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