Trading slowed this afternoon, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average now up 27 points and roughly midway within today’s 114-point trading range. The CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX), which slipped .75 last week, is off another .86 to 24.63 and near (register to read more …) [...]

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Trading is active heading into the options expiration, with 1.8 million calls and 1.9 million puts traded in the first hour, which is more than double the usual. The CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX) hit a high of 27 and was (register to read more …) [...]

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Overall market volume on this Friday the 13th is a very light 8.2million contracts with an hour to go, on track for one of the lightest days of 2010, as most broad averages trade flat and the CBOE VIX sits (register to read more …) [...]

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A number of new ‘weekly’ options will be listed this Thursday, with expiration at the close Friday Aug 6: new names include GE, CSCO, PFE (earnings 8/3), RIG (earnings 8/4) and DNDN will be listed. Today’s volume in weeklys just (register to read more …) [...]

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VZ, F, HON, MCD, AMZN

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Some less actively traded names seeing bullish order flow: Bridgepoint Education Systems (BPI), Foot Locker (FL), Mellanox Tech (MLNX) Bearish order flow: Quality Systems (QSII), Platinum Underwriters (PTP), Lam Research (LRCX) Post-Earnings: Yahoo ((register to read more …) [...]

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AAPL, MS, EBAY, SBUX, QCOM, KO

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CBG, ISIL, CEG, GT, ASML, NBG, WHR, WFT, IBM, PEP, HOG, ZION, WHR, ATHR, BK, FRX, MTG, TUP, YHOO, EMC, FIS, JNPR, VMW, UTX, ALTR, MAN

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IBM, JNJ, TXN, GS, ZION, AAPL

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BA, KWK, HAL, DAL, HAS, MOT

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