128000 EFA Feb 56 calls went up in 1 block on a price variation tag on the ARCA. ?
Shares of the iShares MSCI EAFE Index fund (EFA) are down 1.35 to 52.47 today. ?EFA is near the lower end of the 52 week range.
- Paper traded 128000 EFA Feb 56 calls for .07. ?
- The ADV is 64k contracts.
- The OI 141k contracts.
The volume went up in 1 block on a price variation tag on the ARCA. ?This trade was a straight lift of the offer on massive size and is most likely closing.? The trade tag could have stock tied with 20000 shares going up near the same time.? This could be a straight trade for risk control to close a short call.
- IV 30 is trading 47%.?
- HV10 is trading for 45%.?
- IV 30 is trading above the HV 10.
iShares MSCI EAFE ETF, formerly iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund (the Fund), is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance of its underlying index, MSCI EAFE Index (the Index). The Index has been developed by MSCI Inc. as an equity benchmark for its international stock performance. The Index includes stocks from Europe, Australasia and the Far East. The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index. Due to the use of representative sampling, the Fund may or may not hold all of the securities that are included in the Index. The Fund’s investment advisor is BlackRock Fund Advisors