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Put volume is usually bearish, but that might not be the case with a huge trade yesterday. More than 177,000 puts traded in the SPDR S&P Regional Bank ETF (KRE) on Monday. That was about 65 times more than the volume in calls. Puts fix the price where a stock can...
One of the most predictable trends in the market is that implied volatility rises before big events. But do you know what this means and how to trade it? Here are the basics. Options price in the likelihood of a stock moving, either higher or lower. They get more...
Is the bounce over for a once-might industrial stock? One big options trader is treading cautiously before quarterly results. General Electric (GE) took a beating in 2017 and 2018. It rebounded sharply this year, at one point rising 76 percent from its lowest price....
Semiconductors have broken out to new highs, and one investor is targeting more gains in one of the industry's top performers. Marvell Technology (MRVL), whose chips are used for data storage and networking, has climbed 11 percent in the last week. That makes it the...
Options traders are targeting an obscure Canadian energy stock as oil pushes to its highest level in over four months. Check out the surging call volume yesterday in Cenovus Energy (CVE), which extracts crude oil from the sands of Alberta province: Roughly 33,000...
Someone seems to think the downside will continue in a debt-laden energy stock. McDermott (MDR), a provider of services like offshore drilling and engineering, has lost about two-thirds of its value in the last year. Today a large options transaction looked for the...
A Chinese casino operator is struggling at resistance, and bearish options traders are betting on a drop. Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO) has been trapped around $23.50 for the last month. That level was also a peak in June 2017, which could make some chart...
Everyone's waiting for Lyft and Uber to go public. Did you know Russia's top Internet stock is also active in the ride-sharing space? Last month, Yandex (YNDX) reported 216 percent revenue growth for its Taxi division as ridership more than doubled. The service...
A hospital company drowning in liabilities just reported good results. Now a trader is using options to position for a comeback. Here's a breakdown of the strategy detected yesterday afternoon in Community Health (CYH): 20,000 September 4 puts were sold for...
Metals came back from the long weekend with a bang as money poured into gold and copper. Globex's gold futures (@GC) traded almost 333,000 contracts yesterday, the busiest session since October 11. Prices also advanced 1.7 percent, their biggest gain of the...