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Looks like Power Lunch will have one fewer head in that Octobox.
Bill Griffeth is familiar to anyone who has watched CNBC. He is one of our long time anchors on " Power Lunch " and a steady star in the business news galaxy.
Well, he's taking a leave of absence from CNBC for ...
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FlashForward: Best show on TV that does't involve a sporting event. At least it's my favorite, so that should qualify as Best. Can't believe there's only 1 episode between now and January.
NFL Red Zone: Comes with NFL Network which fortunately we get on Comcast. There's no Lindsay Soto on ...
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Televisa
Comcast
Some interesting volume amidst a slow day, via Cuttone and Company.
US Airways Group, Inc. (LCC), someone is expecting some serious upside as the January 4 calls were in demand. Over 13,000 contracts traded on the day.
Origin Agritech Limited (SEED) has doubled over the ...
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US Airways Group
So you're sick of watching options volatility melt away like the Bronco's lead in the AFC West. You're looking for a safe haven amidst a sea of Un-Dead Buy Write animals.
Well, look no further than GLD. We have a veritable volatility explosion going on. As you can see in the lower graph of ...
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Gold
This from the Options News Network
The EWZ ETF is trading at $75,33, down 87 cents or roughly 1% this morning. Emerging markets have been in the spotlight throughout recovery, and it looks like an investor employed a butterfly to express moderate bearishness. The December 60-65-70 put ...
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dailyoptionsreport.com - 2 days ago
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Hey, here's a new, underpublicized concept. There's a
similiarity between poker skill and investing/trading skill. Brandon Adams,...
who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics , says some of the best ...
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Full Tilt Options Trading
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Looking at the cheapo options board in GOOG for my installment for Options Zone.
In the options world, volatility across the board is as cheap as it has been at any time in the past year, if not the past two years or more in some spots. And after a year of overpricing relative to ...
Stocks
So last night late in the game the Eagles are milking the clock up by 4. There's a little over 2 minutes left and they face 3rd and 4 from their own 35 or so. Imagine if they gain 3 yards and face 4th and 1, it would be deja-Belichik all over again! Do you gamble and try to ice the game on 1 ...
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With volatility a tad low (I'm being polite) across the board, it's certainly not a bad time to sock some longer term calls away in names you like. Jim Strugger of MKM Partners has a list of 25 such names, including National Oilwell Varco (NOV)
With implied volatility ...
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dailyoptionsreport.com - 3 days ago
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So with a holiday fast approaching, one could
reasonably expect some divergence between VIX and VXX. After...
all VIX estimates volatility on the SPX options board, and when holiday's approach, traders lower bids to account for the slow stretch of ...
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All VXXed up
I forgot the old adage, there's no final say on 4th and 2 until Bill Simmons chimes in. And he's not a fan of the decision.
I spent the past four weeks traveling to promote my book. During that time, I stayed in nine different hotel rooms. All of them had wireless. In three of the rooms, ...
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I figure if I post this video, Keiko will find me.
And no, that makes no sense unless you watched last night's FlashForward.
Well, so long as we're talking pins all week, check out AAPL around 200, GOOG at 570, RIMM at 60 and FSLR at 120. And wow, POT returned to 115, just ...
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Apple Inc.
Research In Motion
60 Minutes
MasterCard
Amazon.com
One of the many lovely features of the Direxion Family of Leveraged ETF's is Distribution Day. Yes, they periodically pay out some of their realized profits to lucky shareholders, much like a dividend except you don't know exactly when they'll do it, or how much they will pay.
But fear ...
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Navistar International
So if we've learned one thing this week, it's that pre-anticipating pins rarely works well. I mean even with yesterday's mini-excitement, it's still not a volatile week. Yet of the stocks we've highlighted this week, most flipped towards a strike that looked unlikely as recently as Tuesday ...
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OK, actually not, I just love that lyric. We got a little volatility boost today. Looked at a couple more pin candidates for Options Zone and made the mistake of first writing it up this morning. Long story short, here's the updated version with prices that reflect our current ...
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So how do those early pin thoughts look now? After all, t his was all of yesterday.
Well in BIDU, it couldn't shake 440 on Tuesday. And as we noted, there was no options reason for that, the open interest was just not there. And lo and behold, neither is the stock any more. It's a good ...
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Baidu
Research In Motion
Apple Inc.
Here's an options idea in Avis (CAR) via (The One and Only) Steven Sears in Barron's Striking Price.
Jim Strugger, an MKM Partners derivatives strategist who also has experience as an economist, recently advised clients to look at Avis Budget Group (CAR).
He likes ...
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So everybody know the Sports Guy now? He's kind of the Blogfather of this whole genre. The blogging part I mean, not anything to do with options.
He started out as the Boston Sports Guy in the 90's, and moved over at some point early this decade to ESPN. I've been a fan since then, I guess ...
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Got asked in email about index ETF pins. I responded that I don't really look for those, because basically there are too many moving parts. Take SPY, which first of all has 1 pt. strikes, so will be necessarily close to pinning somewhere at all times.
SPY tracks SPX, which in turn has it's ...
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There are two main drivers to a stock pinning at strike on Expiraiton Friday. One is the open interest of the given strike. The higher the open interest, the more likely the stock gets drawn to strike because owners of the options will likely engage in transactions that have the net effect ...
