Archive for April 18th, 2012
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 1,149,978 62.5% 37.5% $608.34 -1.36 INTC Intel Corporation 660,530 69.7% 30.3% $27.95 -0.52 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 473,812 76.7% 23.3% $8.92 +0.00 CHK Chesapeake Energy Corp 360,293 42.7% 57.3% $18.06 -1.06 QCOM Qualcomm Inc 161,220 61.0% 39.0% $66.985 -0.24 ILMN Illumina [...]
Watson Pharmaceutical (WPI) $67.69 +0.21%
Watson Pharmaceuticals (WPI) adds 11 cents to $67.66 and a May 70 – 75 (1X2) call ratio spread is bought on the stock today for an average of 72.5 cents, 10000X. The 75 leg, which consisted of 20000 contracts at 20 cents, is opening. There is sufficient open interest to cover in the May 70s, [...]
United Continental Holdings Inc (UAL) $22.70 +0.13%
UAL adds a penny to $22.68 on the day and 5000 May 18 – 20 put spreads are bought on the airliner today for 23 cents, 5000X. The new position is perhaps being opened to hedge earnings event risk. The company is due to report around Apr 27 (unconfirmed). Shares jumped 6.3 percent on Jan [...]
EBay Inc (EBAY) $36.03 -0.14%
Big Print in EBAY ahead of its earnings report is a 13000-lot of Jul 40 calls, sold for 80 cents per contract, and possibly a liquidating trade. Open interest is 16,941 and the biggest position in the options on the online auctioneer. EBAY reports after the closing bell today. Total volume is 58K calls and [...]
Prologis (PLD) $34.22 -1.33%
Prologis (PLD) loses 47 cents to $34.22 and a three-way spread is initiated on the Denver-based real estate company. It looks like 1,000 May 37 calls were sold on the stock at 20 cents to buy a May 31 – 34 put spread for 75 cents, 1000X. Shares are down so far in April, but [...]
Hertz Global Holdings Inc (HTZ) $15.02 +2.81%
Hertz (HTZ) adds 43 cents to $15.04 and a 4000-lot of Jun 17 calls trades on the stock for 40 cents when the market was 25 to 40 cents. 5,179 now traded and is possibly closing call buying, as open interest is 14,878 and currently the largest open interest position in the options on the [...]
El Paso Corp (EP) $29.25 +0.24%
El Paso (EP) loses 6 cents to $29.12 and options volume on the stock is 3X the daily average, being led by a 9100-lot of May 30 calls for 50 cents per contract on ISE. It’s an opening buyer, according to ISEE data and is probably tied to 250K shares at $29.17. 22,000 calls and [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C DV DeVry Inc 6,004 4 1501.00 2.25 THLD Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc 2,626 25 105.04 0.47 BBD Banco Bradesco SA 5,579 84 66.42 1.12 ADI Analog Devices 5,631 305 18.46 0.85 NUAN Nuance Communications Inc 11,953 1,214 9.85 0.60 STJ St Jude Medical 3,443 445 7.74 1.99 BCS [...]
Ingersoll Rand Plc (IR) $40.44 +0.95%
Ingersoll Rand (IR) adds 32 cents to $40.38 and options volume on the stock is 6X the daily average, with 9,545 calls and 525 puts traded on the Irish machinery company. April 41 calls, which are 1.6 percent OTM ahead of this week’s expiration, are the most actives. 7,255 traded including a multi-exchange sweep of [...]
Activision Blizzard Inc (ATVI) $12.22 -0.41%
ActivisionBlizzard (ATVI) loses a nickel to $12.22 and it appers that 10,000 Aug 10 puts are sold on the video game-maker at 12 cents to buy an Aug 13 – 15 (1X2) call ratio spread for 29 cents, 10000X. The three-way traded on PHLX and looks opening, tied to 270K shares at $12.22. ATVI is [...]
