National Bank of Greece SA (NBG) $1.34 -1.47%
National Bank of Greece (NBG) is seeing 7X the average daily options volume, being driven by apparent rolling activity. One investor sold 2000 May 1.74 puts at 38 cents and 5,000 May 1.5 puts at $1.50 to buy 8,000 Jun 1.5 puts at 26 cents. Some of the May puts were opened on May 6 when open interest in NBG puts increased to 53.4K from 43.4K. Shares are down a penny to $1.35 today and off nearly 5 percent since the positions were opened. Today’s roll might reflect expectations for additional weakness in shares of the Greek bank over the next four weeks.
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