Procter & Gamble (PG, news, chart) puts saw action on spread trading Thurday. PG fell $1.09 to $65.48 amid a sell off in the broader market. Meanwhile, a player stepped in to a 1 (register to read more …)
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Procter & Gamble (PG, news, chart) puts saw action on spread trading Thurday. PG fell $1.09 to $65.48 amid a sell off in the broader market. Meanwhile, a player stepped in to a 1 (register to read more …)
Onyx Pharmaceuticals (ONXX, news, chart) saw action during Thursday’s biotech rally. ONXX is another biotech name considered by some observers to be a possible acquisition target. So, it should come as no surprise that, (register to read more …)
Xerox (XRX, news, chart) saw unusual trading Thursday. The stock rsoe 50 cents to $13.64 and volume in the options market ran 13 times the normal. Sentiment tilted to the bearish side, as 18,000 (register to read more …)
The CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX) is up 1.24 to session highs of 22.45 as stocks faltered heading into the closing bell. The Dow Jones Industrials have given back 200 of the two-day 450-point rally. The stage was set for some (register to read more …)
Weyerhaeuser (WY, news, chart) is seeing bullish order flow. The stock is up $1.77 to $52.52 amid general strength in the forest and paper products sector. The group got a lift early after International (register to read more …)
JC Penney (JCP, news, chart) is seeing some bearish put spread trading Thursday. With shares trading down 12 cents to $31.23, 10,000 of the September 25 puts and 5,000 of the September 30 puts (register to read more …)
The top trade in the US equity market Thursday is an order of 50,000 of the Citigroup (C, news, chart) September 15 puts that traded along with 20,000 September 20 puts. Sources on the (register to read more …)
AK Steel (AKS, news, chart) is seeing increasing volume for a second time this week. Tuesday, 41,000 AKS calls and 20,000 puts traded on the day. Today, volume is running three times the usual, (register to read more …)
Earlier today we noted that put volume and implied volatility in Dendreon (DNDN) were on the rise ahead of next week’s earnings. See 12:10 comment. Since that time, some (register to read more …)
Dendreon (DNDN, news, chart) implied volatility (IV) is moving higher. In the August 5 puts, for example, implied volatility is moving into the triple digits, up roughly 20 percent on the day. The increase (register to read more …)
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