Volume Spike Investor

It seems that someone is making a majorly aggressive bet against the near-future of Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) stock.  Starting last week we noticed a marked increase in both PUT and CALL options in the consumer products giant in the NOV-2008 expiration month.  And the trading volume continues today.  This was actually the most [...]

PNC Financial Services (NYSE: PNC) has been one of the more insulated financial services firms during teh entire financial and market meltdown.  Even on a day where financial markets are growing concerned that Fannie and Freddie are going to be wiped out by the government bailout.  That being said, why is it that PNC has [...]

We are starting to see some increased trading activity in stock options of  Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC).  Most days now have financial stocks with various put and call optiosn activity, but this looks larger than most days so far for less than two hours into the trading day.  Below is where you will [...]

This week has seen a surge in trading in stock options in Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT).  The food giant has never been this active in memory.  But oddly enough these transactions may be an inefficiency that exists rather than massive gambles. Take a look at the open interest as of yesterday now:
OPTION (Mo/STRIKE)             Volume    [...]

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 [...]