Options Update: Volume Soars on UAL Corp. After Bearish Brokerage Note
With a target cut from the brokerage bunch and looming quarterly earnings report, options traders have flooded both UAUA’s calls and puts in today’s trading.
Options Update: Puts Spike on Caterpillar on Negative Construction Spending Report
With shares down more than 4%, blue-chip industrial construction equipment firm Caterpillar have seen a spike in put options, easily doubling the stock’s average daily put volume today.
Options Update: Put Volume Soars on General Electric Ahead of January Expiration
Shares of General Electric have fallen more than 5% so far today. But speculative investors still flooded the company with a heavy degree of put volume, ahead of quarterly earnings report slated for January 23rd.
Options Update: Visa Inc. Traders Begin Positioning Ahead of Earnings
In today’s trading, it seems that options traders are beginning to position themselves in earnest ahead Visa’s earnings report. Visa’s call volume has outpaced the stock’s average daily call volume by nearly 6 to 1.
Options Update: Volume Soars on Lennar Following Minkow Fraud Allegations
Shares of Lennar Corp. have plunged more than 19% so far today, prompting a veritable flood of options activity on both the call and the put side of the coin.
Options Update: Bank of America Targeted by Heavy Call Activity
Moody’s Investors Service lowered the senior debt ratings of Bank of America. Following the news, the equity has seen a swell in call volume.
Options Update: Traders Pile into Goodyear Tire & Rubber Call Options
Shares of Goodyear Tire & Rubber have surged more than 25% since the beginning of 2009. The recent rally has prompted an outpouring of call volume from the speculative options crowd.
Options Update: Valero Energy Puts Popular Despite Strong Crude Prices
Other than the constantly fluctuating price of crude oil, there has been little news on Valero Energy recently. More than 7,900 VLO puts have changed hands today, more than doubling the stock’s average daily put volume.
Options Update: Wynn Resorts Limited Draws Bullish Credit Spread Attention
The gaming sector has been under fire for quite some time, and Las Vegas-based Wynn Resorts Limited is no exception.
Options Update: Myriad Genetics Targeted by a Bearish Put Debit Spread
Myriad Genetics has attracted a considerable degree of put activity this week. The activity appears to be related, and could be part of a bearish put debit spread.
Options Update: Call Volume Spikes on Research In Motion Limited Ahead of Earnings
Call volume spikes on Smartphone guru Research In Motion Limited, ahead of its quarterly earnings report slated for release after the close on Thursday.
Options Update: Selling Strangles on Halliburton
Despite shares of Halliburton whipsawing from positive to negative territory and back again in today’s trading, options traders have flooded the company with a slew of sold strangle positions.