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WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 05/10/2013
Market is mixed heading into the final two hours of trading. With no economic data due out until Monday’s Retail Sales, trading was steady after Japan surged nearly 3 percent overnight. European markets were mostly modestly higher, but crude lost $1.85 to $94.54 and gold lost $32.5 to $1,436. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 05/06/2013
Snoozefest. With no economic data or important earnings to guide things, market averages opened steady and have traded in a range. I won’t try to make it sound exciting, because it simply is not. Crude oil is up 46 cents to $96.07 and gold gained $5 to $1469. The Dow Jones Industrial Average erased morning [...]
Quiksilver Inc (ZQK) $6.10 +2.01%
Quicksilver (ZQK) is up 12 cents to $6.09 and a sweep of 1800 May 7 calls traded on the stock for 10 cents per contract when the market was 5 to 10 cents. 4,190 now traded against 2,789 in open interest. May 7 calls on the stock are 15.3 percent out-of-the-money and the new positions [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 02/08/2013
The S&P 500 notched new 5-year highs, but the gains came early in the session and the action has been mostly sideways on low volume throughout most of the day Friday. Investors cheered the latest Trade Balance numbers. Surging petroleum exports helped narrow the deficit to $38.5 billion in December, from $48.7 billion and much [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 01/29/2013
A weak reading on consumer confidence and a disappointing round of earnings from the tech sector failed to halt the stampede Tuesday. Pfizer (PFE) is up 3.4 percent and helping to lead the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a 75-point gain on the heels of its earnings report. Valero (VLO), Eli Lilly (LLY), and CIT [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 01/15/2013
Stock market averages are sporting modest losses, but market breadth is slightly positive. 250 S&P 500 stocks are higher and 245 are lower heading into the final 90 minutes of trading. Economic news was mixed after a report released this morning showed Retail Sales up .5 percent in December and .3 percent more than expected. [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 01/14/2013
Market action is mixed heading into the closing bell Wednesday. With no economic data scheduled until tomorrow’s Retail Sales, PPI, and NY Empire State Index, a lot of the focus is on the stock news du jour. In that respect, tech companies are dominating the headlines. Apple (AAPL) and some of its component suppliers (TQNT, [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 01/09/2013
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is about midway in today’s range and, after rallying on Alcoa’s earnings early, drifted rather aimlessly in the afternoon session. The aluminum-maker unofficially kicked off the earnings reporting season with better-than-expected results and upbeat comments about aluminum pricing. Yet, more important earnings releases aren’t due out until next week and [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 01/07/2013
Stock market averages fell following big gains scored last week, but the decline is orderly and there hasn’t been much news of broad market significance to guide the action. The earnings-reporting season unofficially kicks off with a report from Alcoa (AA) Tuesday afternoon, but the floodgates on fourth quarter results don’t open for another week [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 01/04/2013
Market action was mixed through midday, but buying interest surfaced late in the day and market averages are probing session highs. The employment situation was in focus early after the Labor Department said the US economy added 155K jobs last month and the unemployment rate was steady at 7.8 percent. The numbers were mostly in-line [...]
