Volume Spike Investor

MFA Financial Inc. (NYSE: MFA) stock fell more than 3 percent to $7.20 as an active after hours issues with more than 200,000 shares traded, and should be watched for a potential volume spike today. The company late Tuesday announced a 30 million share common stock offering. — Mike Tarsala

MFA Mortgage Investments Inc. (NYSE: MFA) rarely if ever makes the most active options list. Today it defied that statement.  The stock actually rose much less than other financials as its gain to $6.35 was a mere 2.1%.  We saw 50,253 contracts of the AUG08 $7.50 CALLS trade today.  The prior open interest was a [...]

There has been a sudden explosion in some options trading in MFA Mortgage Investments Inc. (NYSE: MFA) mid-day.  While the trading price on this one was rather low, it is a significant amount of shares if you run these through.  Not only that, but it is for the current month of June 2007.  There have [...]