Archive for June 4th, 2012
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 679,583 54.5% 45.5% $564.29 +3.30 FB Facebook Inc 233,169 39.0% 61.0% $26.9 -0.82 JPM JP Morgan Chase and Co 199,768 46.9% 53.1% $31 -0.93 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 181,913 71.2% 28.8% $6.9 -0.12 MSFT Microsoft Corp 175,447 62.9% 37.1% $28.55 +0.10 [...]
Assured Guaranty Municipal Holdings Inc (AGO) $11.26 -4.17%
Assured Guaranty (AGO) is off 48 cents to $11.27 and has now lost 40.9 percent since mid-March. One player in the options market seems to be hopeing for a rebound, as July 14 – 18 (1X2) call ratio spreads on the mortgage insurance company have seen active trading Monday. One player paid 25 cents, 6350X. [...]
Near Term Weekly Option Straddle Snapshot
Symbol Expiry Strike Straddle Bid Straddle Ask Total Volume Total OI AAPL Jun 8 565 $15.15 $15.70 33,746 4,984 BAC Jun 8 7 $0.35 $0.37 20,938 20,523 RIMM Jun 8 10 $0.57 $0.59 16,730 1,635 FB Jun 8 27 $1.60 $1.70 13,835 6,177 SBUX Jun 8 55 $2.25 $2.37 8,316 526 WMT Jun 8 65 [...]
Intel Corporation (INTC) $25.08 -0.24%
Intel (INTC) is down 15 cents to $24.99 and one of 16 Dow stocks trading lower, as trading has turned mixed late-Monday. One player in the options market seems to be thowing in the towel on hopes for a rally in the chipmaker and sold 43,000 August 28 calls on Intel at 23 cents per [...]
US Steel Corp (X) $19.08 -1.19%
US Steel (X) loses 32 cents to $18.99 and it looks like one investor is taking out some disaster insurance on the steelmaker, selling 5,000 Jan14 $15 puts on the stock to buy 15,000 Jan14 $4 puts, collecting $2.025 on the 1X3 and apparently opening a new position in $5 puts that expire in 2014.
Arch Coal (ACI) $6.26 +0.46%
Arch Coal (ACI) fell to 52-week lows and implied volatility in the options on the coal producer hit 52-week highs, but the stock is now up 7 cents to $6.30 and 30-day ATM vols are off 1 percent to 90.5. Options trades on the stock today include a Jun 7 – 8 put spread, apparently [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 3:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C HST Host Hotels and Resorts Inc 3,604 38 94.84 0.78 BIG Big Lots Inc 2,660 57 46.67 2.26 LVLT Level 3 Communications Inc 10,786 233 46.29 1.04 TKR Timken Co 6,656 194 34.31 2.00 MW Mens Wearhouse Inc 2,582 121 21.34 2.93 OC Owens Corning Inc 12,875 [...]
International Game Technology (IGT) $13.38 -0.22%
International Game Tech (IGT) touched a 52-week low today, but is now flat at $13.51. Interesting options trades on the stock include a multi-exchange sweep of 3332 Oct 15 calls for 65 cents per contract and, a minute later, a sweep of 1,702 for 70 cents. 5,121 now traded against 493 in open interest. 30-day [...]
Pan American Silver Corp (PAAS) $17.48 +1.78%
Pan American Silver (PAAS) adds 29 cents to $17.47 and 2,175 Jul 17 calls traded on the stock, including a multi-exchange sweep of 2000 for $1.40. An investor bought to open, according to ISEE. The same contract was the subject of buying interest (for $1.1) last week as well (see 5/30 color). Bullish trading in [...]
Renren Inc (RENN) $4.25 -5.13%
Renren (RENN) loses 26 cents to $4.22 and one player seems to see a floor around $4 and wrote a 10,000-lot of Jul 4 puts on the stock at 30 cents per contract on ISE. A firm sold-to-open, according to ISEE, and looks tied to 303K shares at $4.34. The stock is dwon 42.3 percent [...]
