1. AIG – stock continues to decline, now down 8% since its earnings results last week and now essentially trading at the low from early October. A trader made a fairly large upside bet in …
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1. MSFT – The stock continues its run to multi-year highs, and the best performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Avg for the second day in a row. While the price action in the stock …
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1. CSCO – stock broke out above its 200 day moving average on decent volume in front of what some market participants are calling a highly anticipated product launch in the networking space (here). One …
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F – Buyer of over 50k of the Jan14 18 calls, mostly for 0.32, shortly after the open. F has not traded above $18 since January 2011 (high in 2013 is 18.02). FDX – Buyer to …
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Quiet with the exception of a few names. MSFT – Stock was the best performer in the S&P top 50 today. The Sept 33 calls traded over 80k, with a midday buyer of around 50k at …
Continue readingThe top 4 lines traded in the single stock options market were all related to Sprint, as the Softbank offer was digested by the options market. Today’s top 10: S – Most active lines …
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Event: AA reports their Q3 after the close Tuesday Oct 9th. The options market is implying about a 3.75% move vs the trailing 4 qtr & 8qtr avg moves of ~3.25% and ~3.38% respectively.
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Reuters China’s economy grew faster than expected in the fourth quarter, although tighter credit at home and weak export markets still weighed, dragging annual growth in gross domestic product to 8.9 percent in the fourth …
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This really isn’t an important story, I just find it funny. (Bold emphasis mine) The SEC is weighing sweeping new rules designed to improve the quality of ratings after their poor performance in the financial …
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The strength of the rally this week is something we haven’t seen in a long time, as far as volume and breadth. The fact of the matter is traders got caught going the wrong way …
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