Pandora (P) is notching new 52-week highs and implied volatility in the options on the Internet radio company is elevated ahead of earnings. The stock is up 45 cents to $16.93 in brisk trading of 6 million shares. Meanwhile, about 45,000 calls and 7,200 puts traded on the stock so far. June 21 calls, which [...]
Stock market averages fell sharply at the open, but H-Ps earnings report and better-than-expected economic data helped limit the carnage. A poor reading from China PMI and an unusual spike in Japanese bond yields, sent the Nikkei skidding 7 percent. Most other Asian and European markets also fell. Crude dropped $1 and gold caught a [...]
Serious put purchase in SIRI as an investor just bought 41,000 Jun 3.5 puts on the satellite radio operator for 14 cents per contract. The position is opening and not tied to stock. Shares are down 4 cents to $3.50 and more than 50K of these at-the-money puts traded against 3,755 in open interest. No [...]
Pandora (P) is notching new 52-week highs and implied volatility in the options on the Internet radio company is elevated ahead of earnings. The stock is up 45 cents to $16.93 in brisk trading of 6 million shares. Meanwhile, about 45,000 calls and 7,200 puts traded on the stock so far. June 21 calls, which [...]
Serious put purchase in SIRI as an investor just bought 41,000 Jun 3.5 puts on the satellite radio operator for 14 cents per contract. The position is opening and not tied to stock. Shares are down 4 cents to $3.50 and more than 50K of these at-the-money puts traded against 3,755 in open interest. No [...]
Odd action in VIX, as it moves up .52 to 13.29 and sesson highs, even as the S&P 500 gains 11.06 points and also moves to its best levels of the day of 1,661.49. Relatively active trading is happening in the index market, with about 619K calls and 511K puts traded SPX, VIX and other [...]
Stock market averages are modestly lower, but volume is light and action has been rangebound thus far. The only significant stat of the day showed Retail Sales up .1 percent in April and better than the .3 percent decline that was expected. But, trading was sluggish across the Eurozone. Crude oil lost 50 cents to [...]
Arch Coal (ACI) ticks seven sents higher to $5.08 and sweep of 1,218 June 5.5 calls traded on the stock for 17 cents a few minutes after the bell, then 1,490 more for 18 cents. Looks like early call buyers on the coal producer. 2,828 contracts traded.
James River Coal (JRCC) is up 45 cents to $2.67 in active trading of 883K shares and options action is heating up as well. 4,625 calls and 1,245 puts in the first five minutes of Friday’s session. Early trades include a sweep of 2,970 Jun 3 calls for 15 cents per contract when the market [...]
SPDR 500 Trust (SPY) May 163 puts are again the most actives. Almost 300K contracts traded yesterday and the flow created 207K in open interest. OI at that strike is now 291K and the 9th largest among all listed options contracts. Another 32,900 already traded today. Early trades looked like buyers paying 21 cents per [...]
May-13 160.5 C (Jumbo).. Boston Options exchange is rolling out the jumbos no SPY today. this is only a test…
Serious put purchase in SIRI as an investor just bought 41,000 Jun 3.5 puts on the satellite radio operator for 14 cents per contract. The position is opening and not tied to stock. Shares are down 4 cents to $3.50 and more than 50K of these at-the-money puts traded against 3,755 in open interest. No [...]
Micron (MU) continues its climb to two-year highs and is up 44 cents to $11.67 in brisk trading of 13.4 million shares. In options action, an 8,400-lot of July 13 calls trades on the stock for 31 cents, followed by another 5,000-lot for 33 cents. More than 15,000 now traded against 9,845 in open interest. [...]
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Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg BAC Bank of America Corporation 414,218 68.3% 31.7% $13.21 -0.10 AAPL Apple Inc 408,359 57.1% 42.9% $442.14 +0.79 HPQ Hewlett Packard Co 298,774 63.4% 36.6% $24.86 +3.63 PFE Pfizer Inc 237,103 51.8% 48.2% $29.11 -0.19 FB Facebook Inc 225,649 70.4% 29.6% $25.06 -0.10 C Citigroup Inc [...]
Symbol Expiry Strike Straddle Bid Straddle Ask Total Volume Total OI AAPL May 24 440 $5.35 $5.59 59,585 15,686 AAPL May 24 445 $5.40 $5.71 54,659 14,708 BAC May 24 13 $0.24 $0.26 31,369 38,582 BAC May 24 13.5 $0.32 $0.34 25,058 51,429 C May 24 50 $0.81 $0.84 15,857 10,828 MDLZ May 31 31.5 [...]
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C GOL Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA 8,231 11 748.27 0.19 DSS Document Security Systems Inc 3,051 63 48.43 1.06 EL Estee Lauder Companies Inc 3,971 130 30.55 3.36 MD Mednax Inc 3,242 116 27.95 3.03 NAV Navistar International Corp 9,566 447 21.40 0.72 SYMC Symantec Corp 27,022 [...]
