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For the second session in a row, options traders targeted a key level in South American oil driller Petrobras. Check out this large bullish call spread Monday in Rio De Janeiro-based PBR: A block of 40,000 January 14 calls was purchased for $0.50. An equal number of...
Someone could be hedging their bets in sport-betting stock DraftKings (DKNG). Check out this options activity yesterday morning: A trader purchased 27,000 October 10 puts for $0.94.At the same time, he or she sold 27,000 October 15 calls for $1.59. There was no open...
After a big slide, one big options trader is looking for a rebound in Nikola. Large blocks of calls changed hands yesterday in the electric-truck developer. A block of 40,000 July 5.50 calls were bought for $0.22. The investor sold a matching number of July 6.50 calls...
American Airlines has been losing altitude for the last two months, and now an options trader is looking for new 52-week lows. Check out this transaction in the carrier yesterday afternoon: A block of 9,947 July 13.50 puts was purchased for $0.64.An equal number of...
Traders usually buy options to position for a stock moving, but just the opposite happened in the No. 2 U.S. automaker yesterday. Check out this activity in Ford Motor (F): An investor sold 83,000 29-July 12 puts for $1.06.At the same time, he or she sold an equal...
Big things are happening at FedEx, and one options trader is hedging against a small pullback. A block of 1,280 June 235 puts were purchased yesterday in the delivery company for $3.99. A matching number of June 225 puts were sold at the same time for $1.25, resulting...
Most stocks have been under pressure lately, but there could be bulls in the China shop. E-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA) surged 15 percent to $119.62 despite the S&P 500 sinking more than 1 percent. The rally landed BABA at its highest closing price since February...
Marathon Oil is one of the top-performing stocks this year, and one big options trader is looking for the run to continue. Check out this large transaction yesterday in the Houston-based exploration and production company: Some 13,874 July 26 calls were sold for...
Travel stocks like cruise ships have accelerated lower in the past month, and yesterday the options flow turned bearish in the biggest operator. Carnival (CCL) was especially active, with more than 126,000 puts changing hands. That was triple the average in the last...
Twitter leaped yesterday after Elon Musk revealed a giant stake in the social-media company. The news also triggered historic options volume. More than 1.5 million calls and puts changed hands in TWTR on Monday, according to TradeStation data. That was 346,000...