Archive for April 16th, 2012
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 1,282,164 57.0% 43.0% $580.13 -25.10 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 426,898 53.4% 46.6% $8.79 +0.11 C Citigroup Inc New 157,553 56.1% 43.9% $34 +0.59 GOOG Google Inc 135,701 55.4% 44.6% $606.07 -18.53 INTC Intel Corporation 127,565 66.5% 33.5% $28.405 +0.32 CHK Chesapeake [...]
Cautious Trading Ahead of Q1 Earnings Deluge
6.65 million puts and 6.1 million calls traded so far today, yielding a put-to-call ratio of 1.09 and on pace for the highest so far in 2012 — surpassing the 1.05 seen in Jan 24. Trading is mixed today and CBOE Volatility Index hit a high of 20.42, but is up just .08 to 19.63. [...]
Netflix Inc (NFLX) $101.64 -2.43%
Netflix (NFLX) loses $2.55 to $101.62 and it looks like one investor is tuning in to a May 115 – 130 call spread on the stock for $2.60, 9000X on NYSE-ARCA. Looks like a buyer initiated the trade to open a new position. 14000 now traded. Bullish trading in Netflix comes ahead of an Apr [...]
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS) $116.77 +1.46%
Goldman option flow is brisk ahead of tomorrow morning’s earnings release, with 53,000 contracts on the tape and calls leading puts 3:2. Today’s flow looks bullish, with upside April 120 callsthe most active as 8900 contracts have traded for 1.04 avg price. Premiums imply a 4% standard deviation for tomorrow’s trading, or a range of [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C VMED Virgin Media Inc 2,761 11 251.00 0.72 KKR KKR and Co LP 2,521 44 57.30 0.37 VPHM ViroPharma Inc 4,102 126 32.56 1.48 PBI Pitney Bowes Inc 23,419 1,008 23.23 2.18 SLM SLM Corporation 2,536 144 17.61 2.22 PCYC Pharmacyclics Inc 7,619 455 16.75 2.12 TTWO [...]
SPDR S&P Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (XOP) $52.72 -1.20%
Big Print in the SPDR Oil and Production Fund (XOP) after 60,000 Apr 50 puts were sold on the ETF outright at 23 cents per contract. The position is probably closing, as shares are down 63 cents to $52.73 and the contract, which is 5.2 percent OTM heading into this week’s expiration, has 62,348 in [...]
Micron Technology Inc (MU) $7.07 +1.58%
Micron Technology (MU) adds 10 cents to $7.06 and a hefty trade on the chipmaker today is 25000 Jan14 $10 puts for $4 per contract on the ISE. The exchange is reporting an opening buyer for a customer account. The $10 mln premium purchase is probably tied to a block of 1.43 million shares that [...]
Seagate Technology (STX) $28.30 +3.38%
Seagate Technology (STX) is up 88 cents to $28.26 and seeing relative strength today amid high volume of 11.9 million shares after the latest Barron’s ran a favorable article about the storage device maker. Options action is heating up as well, with 36,000 calls and 11,000 puts traded on the stock so far. April 30 [...]
Cobalt International Energy Inc (CIE) $25.24 -11.06%
Cobalt Energy (CIE) is down $3.13 to $25.25 on high volume of 4.8 million shares after the Financial Times posted a negative article about the company yesterday (Spotlight Falls on Cobalt’s Angola Partner). The company is responding to the article today and strongly refutes any allegations of wrongdoing. Still, the stock is under pressure and [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 12:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C VMED Virgin Media Inc 2,751 7 393.00 0.72 PBI Pitney Bowes Inc 23,370 340 68.74 2.18 PCYC Pharmacyclics Inc 7,567 214 35.36 2.12 VPHM ViroPharma Inc 4,084 116 35.21 1.48 LNC Lincoln National Capital VI 2,964 265 11.18 1.00 MNST Monster Beverage Corporation 3,357 395 8.50 0.48 [...]
