Technology
Facebook Inc (FB) $31.21 -0.10%
Largest single stock trade fo the day printed in FacebooK just after noon when a closing customer seller collected 3cents for 33,000 2/8 34 calls as shares traded near 30.66. Appears to close part of the 1week 34 strike call calendar opened on 1/18 46000x. On that date the 2/1 $34 Weeklys were sold and [...]
Xerox Corp (XRX) $8.03 -1.65%
Xerox (XRX) is off 12 cents to $8.04 and one investor is nibbling at Apr 7 puts on the stock, like a sewer rat on an old slice of stinky cheddar cheese. A sweep of 1,000 contracts traded for 9 cents per contract at 10:30, less than ten seconds later, another sweep of 2,673 traded [...]
HomeAway Inc (AWAY) $23.62 +0.90%
A late spike of call buying in vacation rental marketplace Homeaway led to the largest open interest spike in nearly 6months, as 6000 March 25 calls were bought to open for an avg price near 56cents as shares traded near 23.39. While shares are only up 25cents from that level, the buyer is looking at [...]
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSM) $17.82 +0.11%
Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) adds a penny to $17.82 and several small lots of Apr 17.5 puts traded on the stock for 95 cents per contract before an 18,500-lot traded for 97.5 cents per contract. 20,150 now traded against 776 in open interest and the market is 95 cents to $1. Bullish trading in the chipmaker [...]
Ciena Corporation New (CIEN) $15.54 +6.44%
Ciena (CIEN) adds $1.05 to $15.65 and rebounding after a two-day 7.2 percent skid. On the options front, more than 10,000 Apr 16 calls traded on the networking company against 2,961 in open interest. The top trade is a sweep of 6,833 contracts for $1.12 on PHLX when the market was $1.08 to $1.12. Moments [...]
Facebook Inc (FB) $31.22 +1.40%
Heading into their third release of earnings since the IPO, Facebook shares are trading near 31.26 and option flow is near record levels, with nearly 800,000 contracts trading. Market seems to be expecting a much tamer reaction than last quarter when shares popped 23% early from 19.5 to above 24, before settling back to close [...]
NetApp Inc (NTAP) $36.37 +1.21%
NetApp (NTAP) is up 47 cents to $36.40 and a Jun 32 – 42 risk-reversal trades on the stock for 63 cents, 20000X on ISE. 25000 traded on the day and is opening activity (firm-to-firm) against a block of more than 1 million shares at $36.25. NTAP is up 13 percent since Jan 9 and [...]
Freescale Semiconductor Ltd (FSL) $14.44 +16.56%
Freescale Semi (FSL) adds $2.11 to $14.50 on high volume of 3.25 million shares after reporting earnings. One player recently bought 4,000 June 15 calls on the Austin, TX chipmaker for an average of $1.425 per contract. 5,000 now traded against zero open interest.
Red Hat Inc (RHT) $54.75 -0.56%
Red Hat (RHT) drops 36 cents to $54.70 and a 10,000-lot of Feb 57.5 calls is bought-to-open on the softwarr-maker for 40 cents per contract on ISE. It looks tied to 230K shares at $54.97 and comes the day after the stock fell 2.1 percent in sympathy with VMW. Peer CTXS reports after the closing [...]
RIM Rallies, Implied Volatility High Ahead of BB10
RIM is rallying ahead of the Blackberry 10 launch, it’s first new product offering in 18 months. Shares have already skyrocketed 150 percent since the company offered developers a peek at the operating system at a meeting in September. Now, investors are eager for additional details, like which big carriers will be promoting the product [...]
