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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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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Microsoft (MSFT) notched a new 52-week high today and is up 11 cents to $30. Shares have rallied 15.6 percent so far in 2012 and were helped by a better-than-expected Jan 19 earnings release. One player in the options market (register to read more …) [...]

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Zynga (ZNGA) gains $1.90 to $12.50 on volume of 27 million shares, which is 10X the typical volume for the San Francisco Internet company, as Facebook’s IPO disclosure has lifted shares of many companies in the social media space today. (register to read more …) [...]

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Baidu (BIDU) seems to have caused some confusion by deciding to release its earnings a month later than usual. Some sources had today as the earnings released date. Another source had Feb 6. Truth be told, the Internet giant will (register to read more …) [...]

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Google (GOOG) trades down $51.34 to $588.23 on its first earnings miss ever and options on the stock are heavily traded through the first two hours of Friday’s session. 82,000 calls and 78,000 puts traded in the name so far. (register to read more …) [...]

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Microsoft (MSFT) loses 14 cents to $28.14 and is one of seven Dow stocks sporting losses late-Wednesday. Options on the software-giant are actively traded. 136,000 calls and 83,000 puts so far. Players are jockeying for position in short-term options in (register to read more …) [...]

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Microsoft options (normally behind AAPL and BAC for volume) is leading the single stock space this morning, with a large spread executed on the AMEX at 11:33ET when shares were at 27.95. Initiator bought 80,000 Jan 26 calls for 1.90 (register to read more …) [...]

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Big prints in Microsoft (MSFT) long-dated options after one investor bought 15,717 Jan14 35 calls on the software-maker for $1.27 and then 30 minutes later a 15000-contract block of Jan14 25 puts traded at the $3.45 asking price. Taken together, (register to read more …) [...]

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Computer Sciences (CSC) trades down 47 cents to $23.84 and the top options trade on the stock today is a 3625-lot of Jun 20 puts bought for $2 on ISE to open. 5,100 traded. Jan 22.5, Feb 20, Mar 22.5, (register to read more …) [...]

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