Posts Tagged ‘unusual call option activity’

Options Volume Spike: General Motors (GM)

General Motors (NYSE: GM) is one we have not highlighted in some time for any “volume spike” activity.  We just saw a call options trade that sent up the red flag, but it might have just been an exit trade where a call option owner merely sold the option.  Here is the data we saw [...]

Option Spike: NRG Calls (NRG, CPN

NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) saw unusual options activity today.  In fact, it led the CBOE as the most active Call option series.  We saw some 30,000 of the SEP08 $45 CALLS trade hands.  On a fully leveraged basis that represents some 3 million shares.  The stock closed down 0.2% at $42.97 on 4.162 million [...]