Volume Spike Investor

Dendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) is seeing a flurry of stock options activity today yet the stock is not reflecting the volume at all.  We have seen more than 20,000 shares in both PUTS and CALLS in November 2008.  Oddly enough, this is actually before most traders expect big news from PROVENGE. Option/Strike                 Volume    OpInt [...]

AK Steel Holding Corp. (NYSE: AKS) has seen options go through the roof today.  This is on market talk that the company has entered talks to sell itself.  Whether or not a sale will come up is still unknown, but that isn;’t keeping options traders from putting on their speculator hats.  See below with strikes, [...]

This week has seen a surge in trading in stock options in Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT).  The food giant has never been this active in memory.  But oddly enough these transactions may be an inefficiency that exists rather than massive gambles. Take a look at the open interest as of yesterday now: OPTION (Mo/STRIKE)             [...]

As of 8:50 AM EST we are seeing many stocks that are gapping downn more than 10% in pre-market trading on generalyl active volume.  Here we have yesterday’s close, the indicated trade levels and the volume as of 8:50 AM EST. COMPANY NAME (TICKER)                        CLOSE     8:50AM    %DROP      VOLUME Bare Escentuals, Inc. [...]