Volume Spike Investor

Linear Technology Corporation (NASDAQ: LLTC) closed at $22.60 yesterday, but then came its earnings disappointment.  As of 9:11 AM EST this morning we have seen the last trade at $21.65, down some 4.2% on pre-market trading volume of 87,000 shares.  Keep in mind that this trades over 6 million shares in any given trading day, [...]

Linear Technology Corp. (NASDAQ: LLTC) has just seen a rather large straddle position get taken.  It looks like an investor has made a bet that the stock is going to either rise sharply or fall sharply by Thanksgiving.  Here are the trades seen that signaled the alert, and we included the open interest before to [...]