Dell Computer is seeing relative strrength and calls are active for a second day. Open interest in DELL calls increased by 28000 (compared to -1126 puts) following a day of active trading Friday. Today, another 49K calls and 12K puts traded. Shares are up 23 cents to $13.47 and the top trade is a block of 2212 Feb 13 calls at 70 cents this morning on ISE, which is an opening buyer, according to ISEE data. 11k traded total. Another 16.2K Feb 14 calls also changed hands. The two days of increasing call volumes comes ahead of Dell’s Feb 18 earnings release, which is one day before the Feb contracts come off the board.


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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackdell is usually pretty volatile after earnings release… i’ll wait until feb 17th and see how the feb options price to do a strangle at strikes that are +/- 10%
Very unusual to see the volume this far ahead of earnings. Maybe it’s related to something else???
The only news I see is that they are trying to buy Exanet and some court case being reopened about defective laptops.
Both seem like things that would drive the stock lower.