Search Results for 'XEC'
Best Buy Company (BBY) $17.89 +0.28%
Best Buy (BBY) adds 9 cents to $17.93 and a Nov – Dec 17 put spread is bought on the electronics retailer in late-morning trading for 79 cents, 13900X. Then, in midday action, a Nov – Jan 18 put spread trades on the stock for $1, 14500X. The time spreads seems to express confidence in [...]
JP Morgan Chase & Company (JPM) $41.44 -0.65%
45000 contract 3way traded in JP Morgan calls on the CBOE just before 10am. Executed electronically but package appears to be a sale of 15K Jan 41 calls for against a buy of 15K each of the Jan 43 and Jan 46 calls working out to a net CREDIT of 34cents. In early September we [...]
Amarin Corp PLC (AMRN) $11.69 -5.34%
- Biotech Amarin saw 3 large prints on the Amex (electronically executed), 10K each of the March 16 and 20 calls and March 8 puts. Looks like initiator bought the call spread and sold the puts for a .15 credit tied to 250k @ 11.68. Simlar trade printed on Sep 12th with paper selling the [...]
CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX) $15.61 -4.88%
As widely reported, CBOE VIX option volume set a new all-time record yesterday with 1.22Million contracts trading- actually surpassing the day’s SPX index volume- the options the underlie the vix index cash calculation! Total OI pooped by 242K calls and 160K puts, and the largest trade of the day, the 120,000 lot Nov 18 dec [...]
Valero Energy (VLO) $30.67 +4.90%
52wk high in Valero Energy this morning and option flow is 7x normal with nearly 30,000 contracts trading in the first hour. Flow is concentrated in the bearish Oct 29 – 33 risk reversal (collar) with nearly 8600 of each leg trading and ISE data confirming the flow to be an opening customer buying put [...]
Eli Lilly and Co (LLY) $43.87 +3.47%
Top trade of the first hour was a call sale on Eli Lilly on the NYSE-ARCA (aka Pcoast) exchange. Tied to 43.90 stock a customer sold 15K Jan 45c for 1.52 , with the entire order crossed by the executing broker. Looks opening and a possible over-write into the 3.6% spike in shares on news [...]
Apple Inc (AAPL) $659.52 +1.76%
Massive October six way in Apple a minute ago on the Amex crossed by the executing broker: Paper bought 12k Oct 475 puts .84 and bought 12k Oct 710 calls 14.10. Sold 6k Oct 615 calls for 61.85 and sold 6k Oct 550 puts for 2.97, and bought 6k Oct 630 calls 51.45 and sold [...]
Coinstar Inc (CSTR) $51.40 +6.59%
Coinstar (CSTR) is up $2.97 to $51.19 in active trading of 5.5 million shares after the New York Post ran a story suggesting the company is looking for a buyer — LINK to NY Post Story. Speaking at a conference, a company executive said he had no idea where the story came from (per Briefing). [...]
Sprint Nextel Corporation (S) $4.80 +4.12%
Sprint (S) adds 21 cents to $4.83 on heavy turnover of 56.5 million shares on news a top merger and acquisition executive is leaving the company. Keith Cowan, President of Strategic Planning, is leaving the company on Sep 30 to pursue other interest. Shares are rallying to 52-week highs and options volume in Sprint through [...]
Amarin Corp PLC (AMRN) $13.91 -9.14%
Amarin (AMRN) loses $1.41 to $13.90 after the FDA approved late-Thursday the company’s Vascepa for the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia. The stock had run up prior to the decision and might be seeing a “buy the rumor, sell the news” type reaction. The top options trade on the biotech are Jan 18 – 25 call spread [...]
