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WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 08/24/2012
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is set to finish higher and snap a four-day losing skid Friday. The underlying tone of trading remained cautious early after Asia’s equity markets suffered losses overnight and a report on Durable Goods released Friday morning showed a better-than-expected 4.2 percent increase in July. However, stripping out transportations, orders fell [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 08/20/2012
Stock market averages have traded in a very narrow range again through midday Monday. With no economic data due out until Wednesday and a light earnings calendar, there hasn’t been much news to guide the action one way or the other. European markets finished mostly lower after EU officials dismissed talks about a plan to [...]
WhatsTrading.com Options Recap — 08/13/2012
Stock market averages slipped into midday, but are well off session lows heading into the final hour Monday. A report showing Japan’s GDP growing at a slower-than-expected 1.4 percent annual pace during the most recent three-month period adds to anxiety about a worldwide economic slowdown. And BofA/Merrill lowered China’s economic growth forecast to 7.7%. Yet, [...]
Options Recap — 07/31/2012
The month of July is ending without many fireworks. The past two days have been characterized by low volume and rangebound trading. The tone still has a wait-and-see feel ahead of Central Bank meetings Wednesday (Fed) and Thursday (ECB and Bank of England). The domestic economic news failed to stir much enthusiasm after a report [...]
Options Recap — 7/6/2012
Stock market averages are deep in the red on disappointing jobs data. According to the Labor Department, the US economy added just 80,000 jobs last month. Economists were expecting to see 100,000. The rest of the report was mostly in-line with expectations. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent and average hourly earnings ticked [...]
Options Recap – 7/5/2012
Market action is mixed on a busy news day, but light volume after the Independence Day holiday. Stock market averages fell sharply at the open despite positive jobs numbers. ADP reported that the US economy added 179K private sector jobs last month. 105K was expected. Separately, the Labor Department reported that jobless claims declined by [...]
Option Volume Leaders as of 4:21 PM
Symbol Name Contracts Calls Puts Spot (Delayed) Spot Chg AAPL Apple Inc 424,846 60.3% 39.7% $569.05 -5.45 JPM JP Morgan Chase and Co 253,033 48.2% 51.8% $35.88 -0.90 RIMM Research In Motion Ltd 245,303 54.6% 45.4% $9.13 -0.05 BAC Bank of America Corporation New 239,843 71.4% 28.6% $7.74 -0.03 ARNA Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc 194,351 63.7% [...]
Trader Talk – Final Hour
Action was mixed into midday, but stock market averages are holding modest gains heading into the final hour Tuesday. The Case Shiller Price Index released early was better-than-expected at -1.9 percent, but had no impact on opening trading. Sluggish action continued after the latest Consumer Confidence data showed a decline to 62 for June, from [...]
Trader Talk — Last Hour
Steep losses across Eurozone equity market set the table for morning weakness on Wall Street and there have been no meaningful rally attempts through afternoon trading Monday. Italy’s MIB Index lost 4 percent and paced the decline across Europe amid ongoing anxiety about the debt crisis. In the US, the only economic stat of the [...]
Put/Call Ratio Leaders* as of 12:01 PM
Symbol Name Puts Calls RealTime P/C Avg P/C LYV Live Nation Entertainment Inc 6,264 20 313.20 8.87 ANGI Angies List Inc 4,138 41 100.93 1.21 WFR MEMC Electronic Materials Inc 20,375 309 65.94 0.29 FMCN Focus Media Holding Ltd 6,907 636 10.86 1.37 SWY Safeway Inc 3,836 449 8.54 1.23 IMAX IMAX Corporation 3,695 480 [...]
