Facebook Inc (FB) $29.60 -3.65%
Facebook (FB) is off 89 cents to $29.83 in active trading of 3.5 million shares and, after a five-day 7 percent losing skid, is trading at its lowest levels in almost a month. Options order flow is interesting today as 28,000 calls and 8,500 puts traded on the social media giant in the first thirty minutes. One of the top trades is a 2500-lot of August 38 calls for 15 cents on the ISE. A customer bought-to-open, according to ISEE. A 3750-block of Jul 32 calls, which are falling 7.6 percent out-of-the-money and expiring at the end of this week, traded for 10 cents when the market was 5 to 10 cents. Volume in the July 32 calls is now approaching 10,0000. July 30 and 31 calls on Facebook are seeing brisk trading as well. 30-day ATM vols are moving up 14 percent to 56, as players begin to eye the company’s first quarterly profit report as a publicly traded entity. The report is due out July 26. News wires are also buzzing about a public record that showed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg refinancing a $5.95 billion adjustable-rate mortgage loan at a rate of only 1.05 percent (Link), but that’s probably not a factor motivating the heavy call buying in Facebook Monday morning.
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