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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
From Schaeffer's Research: Calls are slowly gaining popularity over puts on Potash Corp. (POT). On Thursday, speculators on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) bought to open 4,565 calls on POT, compared to 2,578 puts. The stock's single-day call/put volume ratio checked in at 1.77, confirming that nearly two times more calls than puts were purchased during the course of the session. As a result,...
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
From Schaeffer's Research: The company hasn't made any major headlines since its Nov. 5 earnings report, but nevertheless, Reliant Energy, Inc. (RRI) racked up three times its usual daily call volume on Monday. During the course of the session, traders on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) bought to open 5,715 calls on RRI, compared to just one lonely put. The day's most active call was the...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Morgan Stanley (MS) was the home of some heavy options trading on Wednesday, as more than 136,900 contracts changed hands. This volume was roughly 2.5 times the equity's average daily trading volume of 54,500 contracts, according to data from WhatsTrading.com. In addition, 55% of the volume changed hands on the call side. Yesterday's preference for calls is similar to the...
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Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Trina is trading up 4 1/2% at 34.50. Trina is pretty far down on Shaeffer's list but I thought I'd point it out and quote some of their thinking: Here are the stocks that saw a bias toward put activity in the previous session. This filtered scan is based on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) buy-to-open data. It looks for stocks where the previous day's put volume on the ISE is at least twice...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As earnings draw near for semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), traders have flocked to the stock's puts in anticipation of a negative report. The International Securities Exchange (ISE) has reported a 10-day put/call volume ratio of 0.52, which is higher than 85% of all those taken during the past 52 weeks. In addition, the ISE/Chicago Board...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
The SEC has unveiled a set of rules intended to break what it calls “clearly erroneous trades.” These are stock trades that go through at prices so var deviating from current market prices that they can't possibly be correct. They can result from human error, fat fingers, or general computer problems. To solve this problem that “became particularly evident last fall when the extraordinary...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Put volume was unusually heavy last Friday on iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV), with activity ramping up to five times the norm. During the course of the session, traders on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) bought to open 26,684 puts on SLV, compared to just 1,374 calls. In fact, the security's 10-day ISE put/call volume ratio of 2.15 ranks higher than nearly...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kroger (NYSE: KR) was the focus of mounting option trading on Thursday, as more than 37,000 contracts changed hands. This jump in volume was nearly six times the equity's average daily trading volume of 6,522 contracts. Furthermore, approximately 93% of the volume changed hands on the call side, according to data from WhatsTrading.com. The International Securities Exchange...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Calls have been the option of choice on Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) recently. During the past five days, traders on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) bought to open 14,178 calls on FCX, compared to just 8,058 puts. In other words, speculative investors snapped up 1.76 times more bullish bets than bearish within the past week. However, this...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Option players are adopting a rather pessimistic stance on Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO). During the past five days, traders on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) have bought to open 25,744 puts on MCO, compared to just 5,242 calls. In other words, option players have snapped up 4.91 times more bearish bets than bullish during the past week. The preference for...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) saw an unusual bullish option spread earlier today. At about 10:20 a.m. Eastern time, 15,330 GE November 16 puts traded on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) for the bid price of $0.71, or $71 per contract. At the same time on the same exchange, another 15,330 contracts traded on the GE November 18 call for the ask price of $0.67,...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) saw a rise in options trading on Friday, as more than 63,000 contracts crossed the tape. This surge in volume was more than three times the equity's average daily trading volume of 20,519 contracts. In fact, more than 53% of the volume traded on the put side. The International Securities Exchange (ISE) and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hanweck Associates, LLC, a premier financial-services provider specializing in high-performance risk management and trading solutions for institutional investors, announced today that the world’s largest equity options exchange, the International Securities Exchange (ISE), recently deployed VoleraFEED™, Hanweck’s high-performance options analytics solution....
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Option players on Tuesday bombarded Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE: LNC) with a wave of put volume. During the course of the session, traders on the International Securities Exchange
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Call options are gaining popularity on Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV). During the past five days, traders on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) bought to open 3,714 calls on
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