Archive for May 23rd, 2012
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 703,873 55.7% 44.3% $570.56 +13.59 INTC Intel Corporation 283,483 69.2% 30.8% $25.44 -0.59 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 264,301 52.0% 48.0% $7.17 +0.19 HPQ Hewlett Packard Co 255,155 52.4% 47.6% $21.08 -0.70 JNJ Johnson and Johnson 252,752 96.4% 3.6% $63.27 -0.25 DELL [...]
Near Term Weekly Option Straddle Snapshot
Symbol Expiry Strike Straddle Bid Straddle Ask Total Volume Total OI AAPL May 25 570 $10.50 $10.95 46,207 11,524 BAC May 25 7 $0.28 $0.30 28,891 48,235 INTC May 25 26 $0.69 $0.72 22,181 6,429 HPQ May 25 21 $1.65 $1.71 18,769 10,228 C May 25 27 $1.11 $1.14 16,754 7,781 INTC May 25 25 [...]
Hewlett Packard Co (HPQ) $20.95 -3.81%
Implied volatility in Hewlett Packard (HPQ) options is elevated after DELL’s earnings disappointment and heading into H-P’s earnings, due out after the closing bell. The stock is down 82 cents to $20.95 in brisk trading of 37 million shares. Options volume is running 6X the daily average, with 117,00 calls and 100,000 puts traded on [...]
SPDR S&P Retail (XRT) $58.88 +0.84%
SPDR Retail Trust (XRT) has erased midday losses and is up 39 cents to $58.78, but is off 4.8 percent in May. One player seeems to expect the bearish trend to continue and bought a Jul 53 – 58 put spread on the ETF for $1,56, 9960X, to open. The spread will offer its best [...]
Manitowoc Company (MTW) $10.79 +0.47%
Manitowac (MTW) hit an afternoon low of $10.14, but has since battled back to unchanged at $10.74 and options volume on the farm machinery company is running 2X the daily average. 4,635 calls and 570 puts traded so far. One player in the options market seems to have been anticipating a rebound, as a 2000-lot [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C PBY Pep Boys Manny Moe and Jack 15,521 179 86.71 0.58 OPEN OpenTable Inc 2,958 50 59.16 0.91 EXM Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd 2,948 61 48.33 3.51 KFN KKR Financial Holdings LLC 2,902 118 24.59 3.30 ARO Aeropostale Inc 3,588 146 24.58 0.59 MJN Mead Johnson Nutrition [...]
Pep Boys Manny Moe and Jack (PBY) $11.05 -1.95%
Pep Boys sees a record put buy, as paper pays 30cents for 15,000 June 9 puts tied to 11.12 stock on a 13delta (traded as a QCC/clean cross). Opens a new position and doubles the put open interest in the name. Recall shares popped from about 12 to 15 on Jan 30th when they agreed [...]
Pep Boys Manny Moe and Jack (PBY) $11.05 -1.95%
Pep Boys sees a record put buy, as paper pays 30cents for 15,000 June 9 puts tied to 11.12 stock on a 13delta (traded as a QCC/clean cross). Opens a new position and doubles the put open interest in the name. Recall shares popped from about 12 to 15 on Jan 30th when they agreed [...]
SPDR S&P Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (XOP) $48.38 -1.08%
SPDR Oil and Production (XOP) is off 85 cents to $48.06, as the energy-related names are being weighed down by falling oil prices Wednesday. Crude fell below $90 per barrel for the first time since the fall 2011 and was recently down $2.07 to $89.78 per barrel. Recent options trades on XOP include a Sep [...]
Logitech International SA (LOGI) $10.73 -3.07%
Logitech (LOGI), the Swiss-based software and hardware company, is down 39 cents to $10.68 and call buyers are showing some interest in the stock this afternoon. A 1200-lot of Jun 12 calls recently changed hands for 15 cents when the market was 5 to 15 cents. 1,700 traded against 114 in open interest. Another 536 [...]
