Archive for April 13th, 2012
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 1,327,205 57.3% 42.7% $605.23 -17.54 VALE Vale SA 658,831 98.5% 1.5% $23.85 +0.00 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 499,347 63.4% 36.6% $8.68 -0.49 GOOG Google Inc 349,761 55.9% 44.1% $624.6 -26.41 MS Morgan Stanley 182,548 67.9% 32.1% $17.28 -0.94 C Citigroup Inc [...]
E Trade Financial Corporation (ETFC) $10.07 -5.53%
Etrade (ETFC) loses 60 cents to $10.06 on high volume of 7.6 million shares ahead of next Thursday’s earnings release. The stock is down in 6 of the past 8 trading sessions and has lost 9.2 percent in that time. Implied volatility in the options on Etrade is moving up 5 percent to 45 and [...]
iPath S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures (VXX) $18.85 +2.95%
iPath Short-term Futures Fund (VXX) adds 72 cents to $19.03 and one strategist bought 14,000 Apr 20 puts on the ETF for $1.59 per contract and possibly closed a position. 18,490 traded. Apr 19 puts are the most actives in the product. 25,900 traded (86 percent bid) and possibly seeing liquidating trades as well. VXX [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C VTR Ventas Inc 5,262 3 1754.00 3.87 AONE A123 Systems Inc 5,010 39 128.46 0.47 SLM SLM Corporation 12,801 155 82.59 1.03 SFI Istar Financial Inc 4,071 55 74.02 1.32 JOSB Joseph A Bank 4,096 69 59.36 0.48 HBAN Huntington Bancshares Inc 15,995 419 38.17 0.80 AVGO [...]
Coventry Healthcare Inc (CVH) $33.13 -0.54%
Coventry Healthcare (CVH) loses 20 cents to $33.10 and options volume on the Bethesda, MD managed healthcare company is 4X the daily average. 5,770 calls and 450 puts traded on the stock so far. The action is concentrated in July 34 calls and includes a morning buyer of 2,000 contracts for $1.60 per contract. It [...]
Ventas Inc (VTR) $56.29 +0.36%
Ventas (VTR) is up 17 cents to $56.26 and several lots of Apr 55 puts totalling 5000 contracts have traded in the name for an average of 30.9 cents. Looks like a buyer and ISEE data is consistent with opening activity. The investor is possibly averaging down a losing position opened last week when 4100 [...]
SodaStream International Ltd (SODA) $35.93 +3.87%
Sodastream (SODA) is bubbling $1.41 higher to $36 in active trading of 1 million shares. Options volume on the stock is 2.5X the daily average, with 9,300 calls and 1,035 puts traded so far. The flow has been in smaller lots. The top trade is a 600-lot of May 40 calls for $1.35 on ISE [...]
Eldorado Gold Corp Ltd (EGO) $14.55 +1.04%
Eldorado Gold (EGO) adds 15 cents to $14.55 in active trading of 4.8 million shares and higher call volume is being seen in the name. Some investors are going for gold in the Jan 12.5 calls on EGO. Volume is approaching 2000 contracts and 62 percent traded on the ask. Jul 16, Oct 15 and [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 12:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C VTR Ventas Inc 5,252 1 5252.00 3.87 AONE A123 Systems Inc 5,010 24 208.75 0.47 TCO Taubman Centers Inc 3,062 20 153.10 1.62 SLM SLM Corporation 12,672 85 149.08 1.03 JOSB Joseph A Bank 4,070 57 71.40 0.48 SFI Istar Financial Inc 3,154 50 63.08 1.32 HBAN [...]
Financial Select Sector (XLF) $15.24 -1.61%
SPDR Financials (XLF) loses 23 cents to $15.26 following post-earnings weakness in JP Morgan and Wells Fargo Friday. Steep losses across European equity markets amid rising yields in Spain and Italy is possibly weighing on the financials today as well. The top options trade so far in the XLF, which is also the biggest trade [...]
