Archive for June 27th, 2011
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg NLY Annaly Capital Management Inc 3,691,666 99.7% 0.3% $18.67 -0.03 KFT Kraft Foods Inc 977,495 99.7% 0.3% $34.5 -0.10 MSFT Microsoft Corp 310,766 66.6% 33.4% $25.2 +0.90 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 304,995 59.4% 40.6% $10.85 +0.33 AAPL Apple Inc 286,180 59.2% 40.8% $332.04 +5.69 [...]
Alcatel Lucent (ALU) $5.44 +4.82%
Impressive volume in Alcatel Lucent (ALU) Dec 6 calls. Shares are up 28 cents to $5.47 and 28123 changed hands. The action includes a multi-exchange sweep of 10,100 at the 50-cent asking price. Interestingly, the total volume equals the existing open interest of 18,123. So, it’s not clear the flow is predominantly opening or closing [...]
Microsoft Corp (MSFT) $25.25 +3.93%
Microsoft (MSFT) options were heavily traded Monday. Shares are up $1 to $25.30 and the best gainers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average after a court struck down a law that would ban certain violent video games to minors. Microsoft had been opposed to the regulation. MSFT is up and options volume is 2.5X the [...]
Human Genome Sciences Inc (HGSI) $24.73 -0.72%
Human Genome Sciences (HGSI) loses 17 cents to $24.74 and a Jan 25 – 30 call spread trades at $1.82, 10000X on ISE. Looks buyer-initiated, possibly by a firm because sentiment data is not consistent with opening customer. The bullish play comes after a 16.7 percent slide in shares since 4/27. Next earnings are slated [...]
Eastman Kodak Co (EK) $3.42 +0.15%
Eastman Kodak (EK) loses a penny to $3.41 and the EK Aug 2.5 – 3 bearish risk-reversal trades at 14 cents, 4090X on ISE. Sentiment data indicate that the puts were bought-to-open by a customer. The July 2.5 – 4 risk-reversal is seeing interest as well. Some shareholders might be initiating collars ahead of decision [...]
Lorillard Inc (LO) $110.58 +0.08%
Lorillard (LO) hit a morning low of $108.99 on news a Supreme Court ruled against tobacco companies in an appeal in Louisiana. However, shares have battled back and are now down 17 cents to $110.32. Meanwhile, 35,000 puts and 14,000 calls traded in Lorillard today. Sep 90 puts, which are 18.4 percent OTM, are the [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C ST Sensata Technologies Holding NV 4,530 18 251.67 4.31 SWI Solarwinds Inc 5,002 27 185.26 1.14 TCB TCF Capital I 3,322 32 103.81 1.59 TRMB Trimble Navigation Ltd 2,531 42 60.26 1.90 RAI Reynolds American Inc 5,299 143 37.06 0.81 NETL NetLogic Microsystems Inc 15,388 794 19.38 [...]
Petrohawk Energy Corporation (HK) $23.27 +0.13%
Big prints in Petrohawk (HK) as the Jan 21 – 25 bullish risk-reversal is bought at 35 cents, 30000X. Position is tied to 2.4 million shares and looks opening.
NetLogic Microsystems Inc (NETL) $39.35 +0.82%
Netlogic (NETL) adds 25 cents to $39.28, now up 8.7 percent from a week ago, and it looks like downside put buyers are active in the Santa Clara, CA memory chip maker today. July 36 puts are the most actives. 4,602 traded (55 percent Ask). July 33, 34, and 35 puts are seeing interest as [...]
Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY) $18.66 -0.24%
49 optionable stocks will trade ex-dividend tomorrow morning, with $6.4 millionof net proceeds available to early call exercisers. Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY) leads the list with 109190 contracts subject to early exercise for a total of $5.32m. Large positions also exist in KFT, AUY, BXP, CIM and DE. Expect heavy ex-div trading in these [...]
