Volume Spike Investor

SPDR S&P Retail (XRT) is seeing a large bearish bet on Christmas shopping with a 15,000 contract December $31/$27 put spread for $1.45 financed via the sale of 15,000 December $34 calls at 41.45, a costless trade bearing a lot of risk and showing conviction that retail is sue for a set back.  Large holdings [...]

Chico’s FAS Inc. (NYSE: CHS) rarely shows up on the more active stock trades out there. Frankly, this has NEVER made an options screen for the most actives. NEVER must be more finite than indefinite. Today we have seen a huge amount of options activity in Chico’s and it is actually one of the top [...]