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Normally big tech companies dominate activity in the options market. But not yesterday.
The busiest underliers, after all, are usually companies like Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), Micron Technology (MU) and Nvidia (NVDA). But on Wednesday all of those were outdone by a poster child for the old economy: deep-sea driller Transocean (RIG). Here’s how it played out:
Volume was below open interest at the lower strike, so there are two possible explanations for the activity.
First, the trader may have previously owned the 10 puts and rolled the position up by $2 in order to tighten a protective hedge on the shares. Alternately, he or she might have opened a new bearish spread that will leverage a drop to $10. (See our Knowledge Center.)
Either way, the transaction had a net cost of $0.52 and will profit from the stock moving lower through early next year.
RIG fell 3.75 percent to $13.55 yesterday. However it’s up 5 percent in the last month and hit a new 52-week high earlier in the week.
TradeStation Hot Lists app showing busiest underliers yesterday. Notice only exchange-traded funds surpassed RIG.
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