Archive for June 1st, 2012
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 820,928 52.5% 47.5% $560.99 -16.74 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 355,901 55.8% 44.2% $7.02 -0.33 JPM JP Morgan Chase and Co 229,191 47.2% 52.8% $31.93 -1.22 FB Facebook Inc 177,287 47.0% 53.0% $27.72 -1.88 C Citigroup Inc New 156,434 53.5% 46.5% $25.39 [...]
Near Term Weekly Option Straddle Snapshot
Symbol Expiry Strike Straddle Bid Straddle Ask Total Volume Total OI BAC Jun 8 7 $0.39 $0.41 27,486 6,278 INTC Jun 8 25 $0.84 $0.86 13,175 185 FB Jun 8 28 $2.05 $2.25 8,730 3,344 AAPL Jun 8 560 $18.85 $19.30 8,501 1,411 C Jun 8 26 $1.51 $1.56 7,212 980 FB Jun 8 27 [...]
Financial Select Sector (XLF) $13.52 -3.50%
After suffering a 9.2 percent loss in May, SPDR Financials (XLF) is down another 50 cents to $13.51 on the first day of June. One player in the options market is bracing for additional losses. A Jul 9 – 11 – 13 put butterfly spread was bought on XLF this afternoon for 29 cents. If [...]
SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) $157.65 +3.97%
SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) adds $5.91 to $157.33, as gold shines on an otherwise dark day for global financial markets. The yellow metal soared more than $60 to $1622.5 an ounce on dollar weakness and safe haven buying Friday. Early options trades on GLD include a July 157 – 172 call spread, bought for $3.80, [...]
Ford Motor Company (F) $10.08 -4.53%
Options Market is on track for nearly 21million contracts today, one of the busiest days of the year, as the broad market selloff (2.2%) and volatility spike (VIX up 10%) rattles investors. Consumer Goods is one sector seeing volume well above normal, with Ford and GM leading the list. In Ford the 9% out of [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C LYV Live Nation Entertainment Inc 4,507 25 180.28 0.73 CPN Calpine Corporation 2,857 20 142.85 0.63 TKR Timken Co 4,061 52 78.10 1.43 CCE Coca Cola Enterprises Inc New 3,251 53 61.34 0.76 PLL Pall Corp 3,079 60 51.32 0.78 EL Estee Lauder Companies Inc 9,143 209 [...]
PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ) $60.60 -2.35%
PowerShares QQQ (QQQ) is down $1.53 to $60.63 on a rough day on the NASDAQ Stock Market and recent options trades on the ETF include a July 51 – 55 – 59 put butterfly for 50 cents, 20000X on CBOE. Looks like an opening play targeting a move towards $55 through the July expiration, or [...]
Boeing Co (BA) $67.44 -3.11%
Boeing (BA) is off $2.15 to $67.47 and one of 30 Dow losers, as not one of the components of the industrial average has ticked into positive territory today. One player in the options market seems to be taking a longer-term view of the sitation. A Jan14 67.5 – 90 call spread trades on the [...]
Industrial Select Sector (XLI) $33.80 -2.51%
SPDR Industrials (XLI), which lost 6.3 percent in May, is down another 89 cents to $33.78 on the first day of June, and it appears that one invetor sold 57,379 Jun 34 puts on the ETF at 84 cents per contract to buy 49,000 July 33 puts for $1.05 on CBOE. The activity in July [...]
Vimpel Communications (VIP) $7.31 -0.81%
Vimpel Comm (VIP) loses 9 cents to $7.28 and options volume on the European wireless giant is 30X the daily average, being led by a sweep of 5,000 Sep 8 calls for 55 cents on CBOE when the market was 35 to 55 cents. Looks like an opening buyer and tied to 190K shares at [...]
