The largest options trade on the tape today is an opening purchase of 100,000 of the FXI Jan 37 strike calls for 38 cents when the etf was $35.60, amounting to $3.8 million in premium. This trade …
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On Sunday night, as Chinese equity markets were getting ready to open following the government’s unprecedented moves to stem declines, my focus was on where the Shanghai Composite needed to hold: Shanghai Comp’s 200 day …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Wednesday’s trading: 1. CSX – continues to see bullish options flow, when the stock was $36.15 a trader sold to open 8,000 May 33 …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Tuesday’s trading: 1. BBBY – reported disappointing fiscal Q4 results on April 8th and the stock declined 5.5% the next day. Yesterday when the stock was …
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Small caps and China have been weak in the past few days, and options volumes on Friday reflected those concerns among traders. 1. IWM – Buyer of 50k of the Oct18th 111 puts for 1.06 midday. Separately, …
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Calls were much more active than puts among single stocks, led by YHOO ahead of today’s Alibaba IPO. 1. YHOO – Options traded around 3x the average 1 month volume. The largest single print was a …
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Options volumes shifted to emerging markets and commodities on Tuesday, as single stock options were more subdued. EEM had its highest close in more than a year, and FXI had its highest close since December. …
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Soft Landing or Hard Landing? No matter the news of the day and what it points to as it relates to China’s economic recovery, the 2000 level has been a magnet for the Shanghai Composite …
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The CBOE Put/Call Ratio closed at 0.69, its lowest level of the past month. Call activity was concentrated in many of the momentum stocks and sectors, which exhibited outperformance on Monday. 1. TSLA – Options volume …
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I wrote about the turn in emerging markets in a Macro Wrap post almost 2 months ago: The verdict is still out on whether this is just another short-lived bounce for FXI, EEM, and the …
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