Archive for May 22nd, 2012
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 824,142 58.5% 41.5% $556.97 -4.31 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 510,086 82.4% 17.6% $6.98 +0.15 JPM JP Morgan Chase and Co 319,705 58.4% 41.6% $34.01 +1.50 C Citigroup Inc New 197,067 63.0% 37.0% $26.92 +0.67 YHOO Yahoo Inc 192,101 65.7% 34.3% $15.29 [...]
Near Term Weekly Option Straddle Snapshot
Symbol Expiry Strike Straddle Bid Straddle Ask Total Volume Total OI AAPL May 25 560 $12.75 $13.25 53,964 8,110 BAC May 25 7 $0.27 $0.29 37,202 36,213 AAPL May 25 555 $12.85 $13.25 35,856 7,333 STX May 25 27 $1.31 $1.40 24,837 7,325 PCX May 25 2 $0.51 $0.67 20,973 73 JPM May 25 34 [...]
WellPoint Health Networks (WLP) $67.00 +0.15%
Wellpoint (WLP) is flat at $66.92 and options volume on the healthcare provider is 4X the daily average, with 36,000 calls and 2,425 puts traded on the stock. June 70 calls, which are 4.6 percent OTM and expiring in three and a half weeks, are the most actives. Two lots totaling 6500 contracts traded for [...]
What’s Up with the Heathcare names Today
Bullish trdaing in a number of healthcare names today. UnitedHealth Group with 19045 calls trading, or 5x the recent avg daily call volume in the name.Health Management Associates with 10487 calls trading, or 63x the recent avg daily call volume in the name. Bullish flow detected in Humana Inc with 7829 calls trading, or 3x [...]
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) $41.40 +0.15%
Verizon (VZ) is up 12 cents to $41.46 and is one of 13 Dow stocks holding gains in the final hour. Recent trades on the stock include a Sep 41 – 42 strangle bought for $2.94, 7250X. The hefty premium purchase looks opening and to be volatility play on Verizon. Meanwhile, June 41 puts are [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C DV DeVry Inc 4,167 46 90.59 1.90 ITUB Itau Unibanco Banco Holding SA 15,599 380 41.05 3.35 TJX TJX Companies Inc 13,046 541 24.11 1.18 HAR Harman International Industries Inc 3,573 253 14.12 1.33 CTL CenturyLink Inc 13,068 1,186 11.02 1.01 SHW Sherwin Williams 3,952 421 9.39 [...]
Hewlett Packard Co (HPQ) $21.84 -0.23%
Hewlett Packard (HPQ) is off 8 cents to $21.81 and recent trades on the computer-maker include a three-way spread, in which the investor sold 14,900 HPQ Nov 17 puts at 63 cents to buy 14,900 Nov 24 – 30 call spreads for $1 even. 37 cents was paid for the three-way and appears to be [...]
Strayer Education Inc (STRA) $89.49 -2.92%
Strayer (STRA) is off $3.49 to $88.69 and an Oct 60 – 105 bearish risk-reversal is apparently sold on the stock at 10 cents, 500X. The position looks opening and comes as another name in the space — Devry — also sees bearish trading today. See recent color on DV as well.
DeVry Inc (DV) $28.24 -2.08%
Devry (DV) is off 59 cents to $28.25 and falling to 52-week lows on light volume of 403K shares. Options volume on the for-profit education company is running 7X the daily average, however, with 4,060 puts and only 46 calls traded on the stock so far. Jun 25 puts, which are 11.5 percent OTM and [...]
Patriot Coal Corporation (PCX) $1.40 -58.33%
Patriot Coal (PCX) is getting smoked today on high volume of 36.8 million shares after a Dow Jones article suggested the company is mulling a restructuring if it can’t meet its near-term financing needs. The stock is down $1.84 to $1.52 and falling to new record lows. 16,000 calls and 59,000 puts traded on the [...]
