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WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 05/03/2013
Stock market average rallied around jobs data and most of the gains are holding into the afternoon session. The Dow topped 15,000 and the S&P 500 rallied beyond 1600. Overall market volume is on track for 21million contracts today, 27% above recent average. 5 calls trading for every 4 puts amid new all-time records for [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 02/13/2013
Market action is mixed and continues to lack conviction Wednesday. President Obama offered a State of the Union Address Tuesday evening and didn’t color outside the lines when talking about jobs, infrastructure, and sequester. The reaction in the financial markets was a collective shrug. Overseas markets were mixed and stock index futures were little changed [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 11/02/2012
Stock market averages are in the red despite better-than-expected jobs data Friday. According to the Labor Department, the US economy added 171,000 jobs last month. Economists were expecting 125,000. In addition, September numbers were revised up to show an increase of 148,000 from 114,000. Average hourly earnings were unchanged, however, and the unemployment rate increased [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 08/03/2012
Stocks rallied and the S&P 500 is up 27.13 to 1392.13 heading into the final hour of trading Friday. The S&P is at one-month highs and players are watching the day’s highs of 1394.16 to see if buy stops above session highs can be busted — possibly set the table for a move towards 1,400 [...]
Options Recap — 07/26/12
Stock market averages rallied early on hopes for Europe and the gains are holding heading into the final hour Thursday. Equity markets surged across the Eurozone, including a 6 percent gain in Spain’s IBEX, after ECB President Draghi pledged to support the euro as needed. While the rhetoric amounts to mere words thus far, the [...]
Options Recap — 7/23/2012
Global equity markets are back under pressure on concerns about a worldwide economic slowdown. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 3 percent after a member of China’s Central Bank warned that growth in the world’s second largest economy might slow to 7.4 percent, and below the 7.6 percent seen in the second quarter – which was [...]
Options Recap — 7/20/2012
Stocks fell on concerns about a worldwide economic slowdown. Spain’s IBEX plummeted 5.6 percent to pace a decline across European equity markets after yields on Spanish debt rallied to more than 7.3 percent Friday. The euro fell 1 percent to 1.216 and two years lows against the buck. With no domestic economic news to guide [...]
Options Recap — 07/16/2012
Stock market averages slipped on disappointing retail sales numbers, but are well off session lows in afternoon trading Monday. A report released before the opening bell showed June retail sales down .5 percent. Economists were expecting an increase of .2 percent. Meanwhile, the NY Manufacturing index was up to 7.8 in July, from 2.3 and [...]
Options Recap — 07/12/2012
Stock market averages fell in morning trading, but action has turned mixed heading into the final hour Thursday. Losses across Eurozone’s equity markets and ongoing weakness in the euro set the table for morning weakness on Wall Street. The European currency fell to two-year lows of less than 1.22 against the buck. Meanwhile, a 2.6 [...]
