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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Last week AIG reported Q3 results that by most accounts were a mixed bag with a murky outlook that sent the shares down 6.5% on Thursday. The one day decline was the largest in more …
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Massive XLF put volume was the stand out on Friday. XLF – Almost 900k XLF put options traded. Buyer of 191k of the Dec 20 / 18 put spread for 0.38. 95k of the Oct 20 …
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Calls continue to dominate the volumes, with Friday no different. XLF – Buyer of over 100k of the Oct 21 calls for around 0.10 in the afternoon. XLF’s high in 2013 is 20.93. INTC – The Oct …
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Single stock options blocks ruled the unusual activity on what was a volatile session in the morning, only to spend the afternoon praying for the weekend to come. AAPL: the three most actively traded single …
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Single stocks ruled the large options block trades today, on what was a generally sideways day. JCP : stock is up more than 10% this week, the options flow has been fairly mixed but heavy. In …
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Slow creep up all day, at times it felt like watching paint dry, but there were a few large options trades of interest: EWJ: large roll in the 11 strike puts, a trader Sells 50k Sept …
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Financials were the best performing sector in the U.S. market after a strong earnings season in mid-July. But as so often happens in markets, investors and traders had clearly bought ahead of that good news, …
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On a very low volume day until the last hour of trading, a few trades stood out. XLF – Seller of around 70k of the Sept 30 puts to close at 0.32 and 0.31 in the …
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Very light option volumes in both indices and single stocks. A few standouts: XLF – The Oct 20 / 19 put spread traded for around 0.35, 115k times, in what looks like a seller to close …
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