Options Trading
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Daily Stock Options Recap – August 17, 2010
Stocks are broadly higher, as investors seemed to look beyond another round of mixed economic data and focus on the day’s stock news instead. Home Depot (HD) and Wal-mart (WMT) are both helping the Dow Jones Industrial Average on better-than-expected earnings. Meanwhile, mergers were announced...
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Daily Stock Options Recap – August 16, 2010
Sentiment Stocks opened lower, but battled back in morning trading and market action has turned mixed late-Monday. Economic data was in focus early after the NY Empire State Index, a gauge of regional manufacturing activity, showed an increase to 7.10 in August, from 5.08 in July and less than th...
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Daily Stock Options Recap – August 13, 2010
Sentiment Stocks are trading mixed in slow market action Friday. After a 320-point three-day slide, the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened lower under the weight of another round of uninspiring economic news. The latest data showed retail sales up a less-than-expected .4 percent and the Consumer...
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Mixed action on ETF country plays
EFA - iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund - One investor appears nervous over a continued slide lower for global stocks and used a put option combination in the index fund tracking Europe, Asia and Far Eastern markets in an effort to profit from a further 10% slide. The iShares ETF is trading at an unc...
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Daily Stock Options Recap – August 12, 2010
Sentiment Stocks are broadly lower on disappointing earnings and economic news. After sharp losses sustained yesterday, stock index futures continued falling in after hours when Cisco Systems (CSCO) posted earnings and offered a disappointing outlook. The decline gathered additional momentum as e...
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Cisco put sellers shout loudest
CSCO - Cisco Systems Inc. - A disappointing revenue forecast for the current quarter by computer giant Cisco late on Wednesday spawned more fears about the strength of global demand moving forward. Cisco’s shares fell pretty close to a 52-week low and stand 24% lower than an April peak. Options tr...
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Market slide has Japanese tracker options active
EWJ - iShares MSCI Japan Index - Since the middle of May, shares in the Japanese market tracker have lunged between a peak at $10.00 and $9.15 creating a neat trading range. With an overnight confidence in global stocks hitting the fan and a capitulation to a 15-year high for the yen, the EWJ has pr...
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Optimist enacts bullish risk reversal on Dollar Tree Stores ahead of earnings
DLTR - Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. – An investor expecting shares in Dollar Tree to rally significantly by November expiration initiated a bullish risk reversal on the stock today with the price of the discount retailer’s shares up 2.55% at $43.10 as of 3:05 pm ET. It looks like the trader sold...
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Daily Stock Options Recap – August 10, 2010
Sentiment The major averages are lower on disappointing economic news and weakness in Intel (INTC) Tuesday. The table was set for morning losses on Wall Street following disappointing trade data from China and after JP Morgan cut earnings estimates on Intel, which is down 4 percent and the bigges...
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Daily Stock Options Recap – August 9, 2010
Sentiment Major averages are holding modest gains in light trade Monday. With no economic data to guide the action, players are in wait-and-see mode ahead of the Federal Reserve rate announcement tomorrow afternoon. The stock news was mixed. McDonald’s (MCD) is helping the Dow Jones Industrial ...
