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WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 04/25/2013
Stocks opened higher on jobless claims data and extended the gains through afternoon trading Thursday. Filings for jobless benefits fell to 339,000 last week, from 355,000 and much better than the 351,000 that was expected. Meanwhile, the earnings news was mixed. While Exxon (XOM) and 3M (MMM) dropped and weighed on the Dow in early [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 04/23/2013
Stock market averages are holding solid gains heading into the final thirty minutes of trading. Earnings news helped lift sentiment as a variety of names, like ARM Holdings (ARMH), NetFlix (NFLX), Delta (DAL), and Regions Financial (RF), moved higher on the heels of their respective reports. Separately, a report on New Home Sales showed improvement [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 04/22/2013
Trading is mixed and lacking conviction Monday. The only economic stat of the day showed Existing Home Sales falling to a 4.92 million rate in March, which was below expectations of 5.01 million. However, Japan’s Nikkei rallied 1.9 percent overnight after G-20 voiced support for BOJ’s quantitative easing plans and bond yields fell in Italy [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 04/19/2013
Market averages are finishing a volatile week in mixed fashion. A big post-earnings drop in IBM is weighing on the price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average. Since IBM trades for almost $200 per share, it has a large influence on the Dow. Consequently, the industrial average is down 14 points. Beyond that, market breadth is mostly [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 04/12/2013
Stock market averages are lower, but the losses are modest given the very poor economic data and the bloodletting in the commodities markets today. I’m hearing traders were literally puking on the floor at the futures exchange in Chicago today after gold skidded more than $66 to less than $1,500 – lowest levels since mid-2011. [...]
Cypress Semiconductor Corp (CY) $10.98 -1.35%
Cypress Semi (CY) is off 14 cents to $10.99 and it looks like a sweep buyer of 2661 May 12 puts for $1.25 when the market was $1.15 to $1.25. It’s opening activity. 2,690 now traded against 130 in open interest. The stock saw bearish flow on a couple of weeks ago as well (see [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 03/21/2013
Stock market averages fell, as investors digested mostly in-line data on jobless claims, Philli Fed, Existing Homes Sales, and the List of Leading Indicators. Earnings news was mixed. While KB Homes, Lululemon, and Ross Stores saw gains on the heels of their reports, Oracle (ORCL) is weighing on the tech sector in the wake of [...]
SPDR S&P Homebuilders (XHB) $30.16 -1.18%
Flurry of activity in SPDR Homebuilder Trust (XHB) in recent action. Shares are down 42 cents to $30.09 despite a post-earnings uptick in KB Homes (KBH), after Existing Homes Sales results came up a bit short of expectations. On the options front, a Sep 24 – 29 put spread traded for $1.22, 5000X, to open. [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 03/20/2013
Stock market averages opened higher and are heading to their best levels of the day after the FOMC concluded its latest meeting on monetary policy. With no economic news to guide the early activity, investors brushed aside two days of Cyprus jitters (which is one level above Cyprus anxiety, but two notches below Cyprus Fear) [...]
Dell Inc (DELL) $14.11 -1.43%
DELL drops 20 cents to $14.11 and 9000 Aug 14 calls are bought on the stock for 75 cents per contract. It’s not tied. 17,500 now traded against 123,470 in open interest, which is the third largest block of OI in the name. Weakness in the stock today comes on a Reuters report that Silver [...]
