Here is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Wednesday’s trading: 1. MSFT – Tuesday’s trading saw call overwriting (read here), and Wednesday saw some decidedly bearish short term positioning in the …
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Here is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Tuesday’s trading: 1. MSFT – in front of this week’s Windows 10 product event there looks to be a decent size seller …
Continue readingAAPL’s chart suddenly doesn’t look that great. We highlighted what looked like a downtrend in the stock since the December highs last week and expressed that idea with a near term put spread that looked …
Continue readingHere is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Thursday’s trading: 1. C- closed down 3.7% after reporting disappointing results. It was the worst post earnings decline since January 2014. Interestingly, the two …
Continue readingHere is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Wednesday’s trading: 1. TLT – closed down about 1% from the mid day highs, a fairly sizable intra-day move for the bond etf. When TLT …
Continue readingHere is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Tuesday’s trading: 1.USO – saw a bearish roll when etf was 17.20, a trader sold 8850 Feb 17/19 put spreads at 1.19 to close …
Continue readingApple (AAPL) reports their fiscal Q1 results on January 27th after the close. The options market is implying about a 7% move in either direction between now and Jan30th weekly expiration. The 4 qtr average …
Continue readingHere is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Monday’s trading: 1. XOP – The S&P Oil & Gas etf had one of its worst days in years, closing down nearly 5%, …
Continue readingHere is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Friday’s trading: 1. GDX – on a day that saw the Gold Miner etf make new 2 month highs, call volume ran hot …
Continue readingHere is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Thursday’s trading: 1. WMT – saw opening call buying, 10,000 of the WMT March 92.50 calls are bought up to 1.31 starting when …
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