The largest trade in the options market today, in contract terms was in the XLF, the S&P Financial Select etf. When the etf was trading $23.63 at 3:20pm a trader bought to open 152,000 of …
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Investors are scrambling to expand the realm of the sorts of industries, companies, products and services that might fit the narrative of increased infrastructure spending. While tech stocks largely under-performed the initial post election gains …
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Citibank (C) reports Q4 earnings tomorrow morning before the open. The options market is implying about a 2.5% one day post earnings move tomorrow, which is above the 4 qtr average one day post earnings …
Continue readingRight out of the gate this AM there was a large block of puts that traded in KRE, the S&P Regional Bank Index. When the etf was $56.50 at 9:45 am, it was reported that 10,000 …
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About a month ago we highlighted what appeared to be a bullish roll in calls of AMD when the stock was considerably lower: AMD: the semiconductor maker is up 200% on the year, and up …
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Right out of the gate this morning it appears a trader made an outright bearish bet or possibly putting in place some near term portfolio protection in the S&P 500 etf (SPY). When the SPY …
Continue readingHere is some untied options trades that caught our attention in today’s trading: DXJ: the etf that tracks Japanese equities on a currency hedged basis saw what appears to be a roll up in calls. …
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Here is a couple of untied options trade that caught our attention in today’s trading:
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Here are some apparently directional untied options trades that caught our attention in today’s trading:
Continue readingHighlighting unusual options activity in VIX options can often times be a useless endeavor as a good bit of the volume tends to be rolls, and often they are traded delta neutral vs VIX futures. …
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