Dividends are cash payments made by corporations to their shareholders. A regular dividend can be quarterly, or biannual or annual or perhaps even less frequent. Often the amount and date is announced along with quarterly …
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Bear call spreads and bull put spreads are a nice short premium way to play a directional bias. If a trader thinks that stock is going down, but doesn’t have an strong opinion on where …
Continue readingYHOO was very active today in Jan13 and Jan14. The strength in the VIX (up 3 straight days now) on an otherwise quiet day was also notable. YHOO – Some big YHOO prints went up around …
Continue readingOn a day when stock volume was above average, options volumes were actually relatively light. Single stock volumes were dominated by AAPL weekly options. AAPL – 6 of the top 10 most traded options lines …
Continue readingOn a day without major trends in the market there were some interesting things happening in some smaller names. 1. ALL – Allstate Corp, 18K+ Jan’13 37 calls traded in a spread with 16K+ Apr …
Continue readingXRT was down more than 2%, as consumer discretionary led on the downside today. It’s been one of the best performing sectors of the bull market. XRT – A trader sold 10k of the Nov 63 …
Continue readingWe wanted to combine Friday’s and today’s posts to catch up on the active trades, and highlight the fact that NFLX and TRIP have been especially active the past 2 trading days. First, here are …
Continue readingOn a day that saw big market weakness in the first hour of trading, and then choppy trading into the close, here are the large trades and heavy volume, that stuck out to us in …
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With all of the volatility in internet related stocks today, the travel focused names, which have tended to be some of the more volatile issues are not only seeing a pick up in downward momentum, …
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This is the third part of an occasional series where we discuss specifics with other experts in the industry. My former colleague Dominic Salvino from Group One Trading is not only the VIX options specialist …
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