Ratio put spreader braces for further share price erosion on financials ETF. Featured tickers: XLF & F
Options Intelligence Report: Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF) & Ford Motor Co. (F)
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Surviving In Interesting Times
Over the last few weeks traders have experienced a sea change in the volatility environment of the market; we have gone from a milieu in which implied volatility (IV) was low and was perhaps establishing a new long term reality to the current state of accelerating IV in a wide range of underlyings.
Options Intelligence Report: AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) & Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (LYV)
Options Intelligence Report for AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) and Live Nation Entertainment Inc. (LYV)
CenturyTel (CTL) – Huge Put Purchase on June Upside Skew Collapse (Why Skew Matters)
The company traded over 10,000 puts in the first hour on total daily average put volume of just 501. The call:put ratio is 1:165 with essentially all of the volume in the July 30 puts.
Options Intelligence Report: AutoZone, Inc. (AZO), Men's Wearhouse Inc. (MW) & Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX)
Bulls get in the AutoZone following earnings. Featured tickers: AZO, MW & XLNX
Morning Futures Roundup
A roundup of pre-session activity in the futures market – Looking for a Floor
Unusual Options Activity Review – BIIB, AXL, ASML, CATM, XL, CVA, LNCR, MJN, .VIX, XME
Unusual options activity review for Monday, May 24, 2010
Episode 56 – Live From OIC: NASDAQ OMX and PHLX
Live from OIC – Mark is joined by Tom Wittman, President, NASDAQ OMX/PHLX. Mark and Tom discuss the fact that so many exchanges are copying PHLX by swapping ownership for order flow. They also discuss the claims that NASDAQ and BATS are cannibalizing the options market. Finally, they debate PHLX's controversial pursuit of dividend trade volume. Does this strategy exploit retail traders and distort the overall options market?
Options Intelligence Report:
Options strategist enacts large-volume combo play on E*Trade Financial Corp. – Featured tickers: ETFC, CVA & CSCO
Midday Unusual Options Activity Update – C, ETFC, LM, RDN, CMCSK, AXL, CATM
Implied volatility movers and unusual volume movers for midday 5/24
Legg Mason (LM) – Delta Buyer on Volatility Sale into Summer and Stock Repurchase
The company traded over 20,500 options in the first hour on total daily average option volume of just 3,208. The largest trade accounts for 20,000 options.
Options Intelligence Report: Comcast Corp. Class A Special (CMCSK), Industrial Select Sector SPDR (XLI) & Cardtronics, Inc. (CATM)
Strangle player sees range-bound shares for Comcast Corp. – Featured tickers: CMCSK, XLI & CATM