The most interesting headline of the day hit this morning, with AAPL opening higher on this news: (Reuters) – Apple Inc. on Thursday confronted its first major challenge from an activist shareholder in years as …
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We have gotten a few questions on CSTR into their Q4 earnings tonight after the close so we thought we would give you a sense of how the options market is viewing the event. The implied …
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1. JCP – there was a buyer of at least 8000 Feb08 weekly straddles for $1.24 with stock trading $19.12. Stock quickly went up over $20. IV30 is up 4.5%. Stock had been down on …
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Two big prints that were both protective in nature. VIX – buyer of the Apr 20/25 call spread 150,000 times paying 0.70 to open. Quite a big bet, as that involved paying out $10.5 million …
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The most exciting trading was primarily in earnings stocks. 1. CTRX – Citrix Systems, 10 times average option volume. Calls to puts 4.4:1. IV30 was up almost 10 points. Earnings after the bell today. Looks …
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Call it nostalgia, but BRCM is a stock I continue to follow all these years after I was a market maker in the name on the floor of the Amex, when the semi stocks were …
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On Jan options expiry, the usual suspects dominated single stock options volume – AAPL, BAC, FB. AAPL – It did indeed pin 500. The 500 calls and puts expiring today traded 120k and 80k respectively. Interestingly, …
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I was primarily impressed today with the number of stocks hitting their 52-week lows in implied vol. 1. HAIN – one of the few stocks hitting 52-week IV30 highs on my Livevol scroll that’s not …
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Another nothing day in the major indices but some fun things happening in individual names with AAPL’s break below 500 now a reality and investors’ shrug off of the Facebook announcement. Here are the options …
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Kind of a slow day in the markets with light volume on the equity and options fronts. Maybe a hangover from last week’s wild moves. Here were a couple of names with activity we noticed: …
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