Hefty prints in BofA (BAC) late. Shares are up 29 cents to $8.12 and continuing the 2012 surge. In late day options action, 128,000 April 7 calls traded on the $1.38 bid on PHLX and possibly part of an overwriting (register to read more …) [...]

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133 stocks will release earnings before tomorrow’s open, with Cisco and Pepsi leading the volume (try @earnings in Flow Monitor). For the group, calls outnumber puts nearly 2:1 and CSCO flow is triple the average time-weighted volume, on track for (register to read more …) [...]

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Etrade Financial (ETFC) adds a dime to $9.20 and a 10000-contract block of Jan14 $10 call trades on the broker at the $2.10 asking price. Looks opening and tied to 600K shares for $9.17. A Dow Jones article today mentioned (register to read more …) [...]

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Diamond Foods (DMND) loses 49 cents to $37.31 and it appears that one or more investors has been building a position in Feb 30 – 35 put spreads on the snack food company today. The top trade is 3,021 Feb (register to read more …) [...]

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Yahoo (YHOO) loses a penny to $15.81 and one strategist sells 10,000 Jan 12.5 puts on the Internet giant at 89 cents and 17,500 Jan 20 calls at 57 cents — possibly exiting a trade and/or betting that the stock (register to read more …) [...]

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Barrick Gold (ABX) edges 17 cents higher to $49.34 after gold rebounded from recent losses and is trading up $11 to $17.36 an ounce. Options action in the gold miner today includes a 4150-lot of Feb 50 calls for 57 (register to read more …) [...]

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Yahoo for the trader who just put up a cool 270,000 contract trade on the PHLX on an otherwise low volume Monday with the broad averages near flat and vix up .79 to 17.89. On the PHLX the initiator paid (register to read more …) [...]

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Vulcan Materials (VMC) is up 4 cents to $44.83 and early options trades on the stock include a multi-exchange sweep of 1,063 Feb 45 puts for $1.80 per contract. 3,070 now traded against 106 in open interest. Data from the (register to read more …) [...]

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Dryships (DRYS) sees a second day of increasing volume. Shares are up 20 cents to $2.63 on volume approaching 14 million. Typical volume in the first two hours is about 2 million shares. Meanwhile, options activity is running 3.5X the (register to read more …) [...]

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MIPS Technologies (MIPS) loses 10 cents to $6.41 and options volume on the Santa Clara, CA chipmaker is running 8X the daily average. 6840 puts and 630 calls traded in the name so far. The flow is concentrated in April (register to read more …) [...]

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