Archive for May 1st, 2012
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 666,474 60.2% 39.8% $582.13 -1.85 WFC Wells Fargo and Company 356,437 94.6% 5.4% $34.09 +0.68 CHK Chesapeake Energy Corp 244,468 59.8% 40.2% $19.6 +1.16 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 232,796 73.8% 26.2% $8.31 +0.20 INTC Intel Corporation 186,756 74.0% 26.0% $28.95 +0.56 [...]
Near Term Weekly Option Straddle Snapshot
Symbol Expiry Strike Straddle Bid Straddle Ask Total Volume Total OI AAPL May 4 585 $12.65 $13.10 44,541 8,638 AAPL May 4 580 $12.80 $13.25 30,205 8,849 CHK May 4 19 $1.33 $1.44 14,362 4,717 RIMM May 4 14 $0.69 $0.75 13,743 8,017 BAC May 4 8 $0.35 $0.38 13,009 21,912 CHK May 4 20 [...]
Genworth Financial Inc (GNW) $6.15 +2.33%
Call options on Genworth (GNW) were busy Friday (see 4/27 color). and are active again today ahead of the mortgate insurance company’s quarterly earnings, due out after the closing bell. 17,000 calls traded on the stock today. However, the top trades don’t seem very bullish, as it appears that an investor bought a Jun 4 [...]
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc (NUS) $48.54 -8.93%
Options volume in Nu Skin (NUS) was about 2600 contracts midday, but has since surged to 15K and has easily surpassed the 52-week high volume day on 3/29 when 4600 contracts traded in the name. Share volume, at 6.3 million, is 5X the normal. Shares are off $5 to $48.30 and falling in sympathy with [...]
Herbalife Ltd (HLF) $53.92 -23.32%
Herbalife (HLF) is under pressure today on heavy volume of 23 million shares after the company posted better-than-expected earnings and revenues, but was then later grilled by David Einhorn about distributor disclosures in the post-earnings call. Shares are down $16.32 to $54 and options volume is running 17X the daily average, mostly in smaller lots. [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C PLD Prologis 5,267 160 32.92 1.38 PANL Universal Display Corp 6,658 281 23.69 0.77 STP Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd 24,877 1,781 13.97 1.34 ATML Atmel Corp 7,358 548 13.43 0.81 NEE NextEra Energy Capital Holdings Inc 6,815 659 10.34 0.96 COF Capital One 24,904 2,517 9.89 [...]
Intel Corporation (INTC) $29.04 +2.27%
Intel (INTC) adds 60 cents to $29 and is one of 26 Dow stocks helping the industrial average to a 107-point gain Tuesday. Meanwhile, options on the world’s largest chipmaker are busy . 109,000 calls and 32,000 puts so far. The top trade is a 15500-lot of Jul 30 calls traded at 53 cents per [...]
Avon Products Inc (AVP) $19.89 -7.92%
Avon Products (AVP) loses $1.72 to $19.88 on earnings and one investor seems to view the weakness as an opportunity to write 7400 Oct 18 puts on the stock at $1.40 per contract. The block traded on ISE and was an opening seller for a customer account, according to ISEE. 7,760 now traded. May 20 [...]
United States Natural Gas Fund LP (UNG) $16.84 +2.62%
US Natural Gas Fund (UNG) adds 46 cents to $16.87 and a May 15 – 16 put spread is apparently sold on the ETF at 28 cents, 13312X and probably closes a position opened last week for 72 cents (see 4/23 color). Shares have rallied 11.8 percent since that time. Higher natural gas prices have [...]
Spectra Energy Corp (SE) $31.45 +2.31%
Call buyers are busy in Spectra Energy (SE) ahead of a May 4 earnings report. Shares are up 73 cents and midday trades include a multi-exchange sweep of 2,233 Jun 33 calls for 20 cents per contract (at 11:00). Ten minutes later 1,771 traded for 35 cents. Volume is now 12,505 against 5,322 in open [...]
