Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Monday’s trading: 1. MCD’s – the new CEO laid out his plane to turnaround falling sales in this 23 minute video, be prepared to be underwhelmed: https://mcdonalds.webcasts.com/viewer/event.jsp?ei=1063465 …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Friday’s trading: 1. PFE – total options volume ran more than 2x average daily with calls outnumbering puts almost 3 to 1. …
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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reports Q1 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about a 2% move. The April 17th 101 straddle (the call and the put premium) is offered at about …
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Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY) reports their fiscal Q4 results Wednesday after the close, the options market is implying about a 7% one day move which is essentially inline with the average over the last …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Thursday’s trading: 1. HRB – An interesting trade went up with the stock around $32, a trader sold 20,000 of the April …
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Shares of Facebook (FB) have been stuck between $74 and $82 for the better part of the last six months and importantly have not confirmed a new high in the S&P 500 since late last …
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Dan pointed me to this video from last night’s Fast Money with a very good discussion on oil related stocks: . I wanted to zoom in on one point made by Pete towards the end …
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Volumes remained low on Friday, especially in the options market. Overall market volumes were their lowest since early September. 1. BABA – BABA was green every day last week, rallying more than 15% in total on …
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Aside from a large in contract terms (75,000) very low delta 190/180 put spread that appeared to be bought in the SPY Sept 30th quarterly options yesterday, single stock options attracted most of the attention, while …
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We highlighted some interesting call options activity in BIDU in this morning’s TMO post: BIDU – BIDU has held up well after a breakout in July. Saw some call buying yesterday – trader pays 0.41 for 5,000 …
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