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Nokia Corp (NOK) $3.15 +2.61%
Nokia (NOK) is up 10 cents to $3.17 and an 11,625-lot of May 3.5 puts trades on the stock at 34 cent per contract. It might be a liquidating trade after the stock fell 14.2 percent Thursday and Friday in the wake of the company’s earnings report. 22,754 now traded against 52,944 in open interest. [...]
Hologic Inc (HOLX) $20.79 -2.26%
Hologic (HOLX) drops 46 cents to $20.82 and afternoon options trades on the Bedford, MA medical instruments company incluces a sweep of 3,000 May 22 calls for 34 cents per contract on CBOE when the market was 25 to 35 cents. A minute later, a sweep of 1,000 May 21 calls traded on HOLX for [...]
Power One Inc (PWER) $6.33 +56.81%
ABB’s $6.35 per share cash deal to buy Power-One has shares up 56% to the deal price and at least one option trader out there appears to be about $140,000 richer after a well-timed purchase of about 1300 July 5 calls last Thursday for 20cents when share were at 4.02.
Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ) $31.61 -0.25%
Mondelez (MDLZ) is off 11 cents to $31.57 and options on the Deerfield, IL snack foods company are seeing a flurry of activity today. 35,000 calls and 4,900 puts so far. The top trade is sweep of 1150 May 27 puts this afternoon for 31 cents per contract on ISE. 11,750 now traded. Another 11,590 [...]
Mens Wearhouse Inc (MW) $31.91 -1.91%
Men’s Warehouse 18% out of the money Aug 26 puts are active with a buyer paying 65cents for nearly 4500 contracts this afternoon as shares traded near 31.87. Likely closes part of the largest block open in the name- a position that was opened on Feb 26th when a seller was buying the (nicely profitable) [...]
US Steel Corp (X) $16.25 -0.85%
US Steel (X) is off 14 cents to $16.25, fresh 9-year lows, and 19,300 Jan15 $10 puts trade on the steelmaker for $1.42 per contract on ISE. A customer bought the puts, to open, according to ISEE data. Open interest at that strike is 19,500 and much of the OI dates back to Sep 26, [...]
Netflix Inc (NFLX) $175.74 +7.57%
Busy earnings week for options traders with 16 of the top 50 volume names reporting in the next few days (try /ecal @top50 to see the list). Netflix is first up, expected to release in a few hours, and NFLX option volume is 70% above normal, with 100,000 contracts trading by 2pm and half the [...]
NXP Semiconductors NV (NXPI) $25.87 +2.29%
NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) is up 52 cents to $25.81 and a May 25 – 30 call spread is bought on the Dutch chipmaker for $1.80, 5000X. Open interest is sufficient to cover, but trade history doesn’t show any large blocks of May 25 or 30 calls traded on NXPI in the past. So, this might [...]
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) $79.74 +0.16%
Occidental Petroleum earnings are due Thurs pre-open and call volume today is twice the normal level and directionally bullish, with 11,000 May 82.5calls trading from 1.14 to 1.20 (most for 1.16) and opening buyers driving the action. Weekly 80 straddle priced near 3.3% of spot, median reaction from past 8 qtrs was 2.4% past 6 [...]
Intel Corporation (INTC) $22.70 +1.16%
Intel (INTC) adds 28 cents to $22.71 and a 20000-lot of Aug 24 calls is opened on the chipmaker for 48 cents per contract when the market was 45 to 48 cents. It might roll out of June, where 10K of the Jun 23 calls and 15K Jun 22 calls also traded at roughly the [...]
