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Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) $2.32 +1.31%
AMD is up 4 cents to $2.33 and call options on the chipmaker are busy for a third time this week, but in contrast to Monday and Tuesday, it appears that premium sellers are dominating the action Thursday. The activity earlier this week created about 48,000 contracts in new open interest in call options on [...]
Apple (AAPL) Volatility Spike on Margin Hike
Apple is down $24.74 to $551.11 and revisiting the $550 level today on heavy volume of 13.5 million shares after COR Clearing raised margin requirements on the stock to 60 pecent from 30 percent (Link to Report). CNBC is reporting that other firms, Lazard, Morgan, and JPM, are not planning to follow COR’s lead. Yet, [...]
Baidu.com (BIDU), Chinese Internet Stocks, Drop
Baidu.com (BIDU) drops $4.04 to $91.86 in brisk trading of 1.8 million shares and options on the Chinese Internet company are busy as well. 13,000 calls and 14,000 puts so far. Weekly 90 puts are the most actives, with 3,125 traded against 688 in open interest. SINA is also under pressure, falling $2 to $43.45 [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 11/29/2012
Stock market averages are holding gains despite pessimistic commentary from House Speaker John Boehner Thursday. Economic data was in focus early after GDP showed improvement to a 2.7 percent annual rate for the third quarter, which was not too far from economist estimates. Weekly Jobless Claims fell to 393K and also mostly in-line with expectations. [...]
Zillow Inc (Z) $24.26 +1.00%
Zillow (Z), the Seattle, WA real estate information web site, is up 12 cents to $24.14 and 3000 Feb 25 calls trade on the stock at $2.625 per contract when the market was $2.35 to $2.65. Looks opening and printed one minute for today’s Existing Home Sales and NAHB index came in above expectations. Existing [...]
Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp (MRX) $42.90 +0.89%
Medicis Pharmaceuticals (MRX) adds 23 cents to $42.75 and one player buys 3000 Jan 44 calls on the stock for 10 cents per contract. Smaller sweeps have also traded for 10 cents. 3,789 now traded on the day and, while open interest in Jan 44 calls on MRX is 9,322 and already the largest block [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 11/14/2012
Stock market averages were modestly lower at midday and the decline gathered additional momentum through a press conference from President Obama and the release of FOMC minutes this afternoon. Although Cisco (CSCO), Staples (SPLS), and Abercrombie (ANF) scored solid morning gains with help from earnings results, the economic data disappointed. Retail Sales were negatively impacted [...]
Facebook Inc (FB) $21.59 +8.73%
Facebook stock and option volume is extremely heavy today as shares lift 9% to 21.66 on improved sentiment after one tranche of 777million locked-up shares became tradeable. Option volume is on track for 1.3Million contracts, which would blow thru the prior record of 807K set 10/24 (try /range FB to see more data). 2day Nov [...]
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 [...]
CarMax Group (KMX) $33.45 +2.04%
Carmax (KMX) is up 50 cents to $33.28 in active trading of 2 million shares after Credit Suisse upgraded the stock to Outperform. 4,600 calls and 400 puts traded on KMX. Much of the flow is concentrated in Nov 34 calls, where 3,777 traded against 630 in open interest. 30-day ATM implied volatility is up [...]
