Big Printin’

Minutes after the open this morning when the QQQ (the Nasdaq 100 etf) was trading $185.15. there was an opening buyer of 7,000 of the November 176 – 157 put spreads paying $3.11 to open. …

Last Thursday, when trump threatened (by Tweet), tariffs against one of our countries strongest allies and one of our largest trading partners (Mexico), the stocks of many companies that do a ton of cross-border trade …

We get asked all of the time whether or not options activity is bullish or bearish. Our answer is usually ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as it is nearly impossible to know without intimate knowledge of the trade, the …

There was a large roll in Exxon Mobil (XOM) calls yesterday that caught my eye. When the stock was trading $83.14 a trader paid $1.40 for 11,700 of the Jan 82.50 / March 87.50 call …

After a fairly long period of under-performance to the broad market in 2017, bank stocks ,as measured by the S&P Financial Select XLF, made a new 52 week and multi-year high. This follows a 10% …

Both Sprint (S) and T-Mobile (TMUS) stocks are higher this week after word of a potential merger hit. Here’s CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday reporting from “people close to the situation”: T-Mobile and Sprint are …

As we get closer to the approval of AT&T’s (T) $85.4 billion acquisition of media company Time Warner (TWX). If the deal is on track, it might make sense to keep one’s antennas up for …

Apple (AAPL) is not the sort of stock that we frequently note unusual activity, despite the obviously tremendous notional value that trades on a daily basis. One reason is that a good bit of the …

This morning Credit Suisse upgraded their view of the U.S Steel sector in a 70-page report. This comes 4 months after downgrading the sector. In case you missed it, U.S. Steel (X) in particular has …

Shares of Blackberry (BBRY) are up 9.4% as I write, up a whopping 63% on the year. No they did not come up with an iPhone killer, they actually don’t make smartphone hardware anymore, for …