Diamond Foods (DMDN) sees and an afternoon spike to $22.2 and is now up 93 cents to $21.64 on increasing volume of 644K shares. Options action is picking up as well. 5,440 calls and 1,280 puts traded on DMND so (register to read more …) [...]

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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) is off 52 cents to $49.22 on 3.7 million shares traded, which is a bit lighter than normal, as investors are possibly taknig a wait-and-see approach ahead of the company’s earnings report. However, options on (register to read more …) [...]

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Herbalife (HLF) is under pressure today on heavy volume of 23 million shares after the company posted better-than-expected earnings and revenues, but was then later grilled by David Einhorn about distributor disclosures in the post-earnings call. Shares are down $16.32 (register to read more …) [...]

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Implied volatility in the options on Tyson Foods (TSN) is up sharply on unconfirmed reports the USDA has identified cases of mad cow disease. The talk has triggered volatile reactions in a number of names including WEN, MCD, PPC, DF, (register to read more …) [...]

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Harley Davidson (HOG) sees an afternoon spike to $51.96 and is up $1.92 to $51.48 on increasing volume of 2.7 million shares. Options action is heating up as well. 9,470 calls and 2,955 puts traded on the motorcycle-maker so far. (register to read more …) [...]

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Sodastream (SODA) is bubbling $1.41 higher to $36 in active trading of 1 million shares. Options volume on the stock is 2.5X the daily average, with 9,300 calls and 1,035 puts traded so far. The flow has been in smaller (register to read more …) [...]

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Ryland Group (RYL) loses 49 cents to $18.79 and an Apr – May 18 put spread is bought on the homebuilder for 54 cents, 12000X. Open interest in Apr 18 puts is sufficient to cover and the spread might roll (register to read more …) [...]

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Avon Products (AVP) is up $2.88 to $22.25 after Coty Inc made a $23.25 per share bid for the company. Avon rejected the offer and volume in AVP is approaching 40 million shares. By way of comparison, typical volume is (register to read more …) [...]

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Liz Claiborne (LIZ) sees a spike to $1.86 to $13.69 on two times normal share volume of 5 million on a WSJ story about that the company shopping itself to private equity for $20 per share. 2,700 options traded on (register to read more …) [...]

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Pulte Group (PHM) loses 52 cents to $8.96 and a hefty spread is initiated on the stock after 48,400 Apr 8 puts were sold on the homebuilder at 11 cents and 48,400 May 8 puts bought for 34 cents. The (register to read more …) [...]

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