Volume Spike Investor

It’s been a while since we have seen the US homebuilder sector have stock options among the most active contracts at the CBOE.  It’s usually financial stocks that traders have been using.  Looking at Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL) and Lennar (NYSE: LEN) says it all.  But today we are seeing the following trades out there [...]

Traders are using CALL OPTIONS to trade Citigroup right now as many options are being rolled forward this week (expiration date is today). Of the ten most active call option contracts on the entire CBOE, four of the ten most actives are Citigroup options. Below you can see the number of contracts for each month [...]

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 [...]

Apple, Inc.. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is set to be THE news focus on Monday as Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off.  The expectation is for a 3G iPhone, particularly as all iPhones in the U.S. are essentially sold out now and have been so for weeks. On such a crummy day like today, it is hard to [...]