Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) finds itself in an unusual place at an unusual time. The direction of the stock price may not exactly be a coin toss, but the case for up and down can be argued either way.
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The company traded over 6,000 options on total daily average option volume of just 1,403. All but 49 contracts were calls. The largest trades were purchases of the August 14 and September 15 calls.
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The company traded over 16,000 options in the first two hours on total daily average option volume of just 2,364. 10,000+ of the contracts were done in a front month 17/18 strangle sale (one week trade) @ $0.30.
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