High Options Volume by Strike
Spiders everywhere! Volume led by Financial Select SPDR (NYSE: XLF) with the XLF Apr11 17 call garnering 102,490 traded contracts and a last sale of .09. Following that is a couple of strikes in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (NYSE: EEM). The EEM Apr11 44 Put has 87,913 contracts with a last of .04, and the EEM Apr11 42 Put traded 87,775 with a last of .02. Hmmmm. Also in the top 5 are two SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) strikes. The SPY Apr Weekly1 133 Put has traded 84,515 contracts, last .08, while the SPY Apr11 130 Put has garnered 75,747 contracts with a last sale of .48.
Stocks/Underlying – High Option Volume
Major option volume again in SPY with the underlying up .99 to 133.58 as option trading reaches 1.01 million. Also in the top five is XLF, up .17 to 16.56 and option volume of 181,287. The S&P 500 Index Options (CBOE: SPX) sees option volume of 276,121 as SPX rises 10.09 to 1,335.92. Other indices doing big business are the iShares Russell 2000 (NYSE: IWM) with 323,734 options trading, and the PowerShares Nasdaq 100 (NASDAQ: QQQ) up .36 to 57.75 with 261,251 options trading. The CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE: VIX) saw 170,852 traded.
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Major Stock Trading Volume Movers
Stocks seeing the largest jumps in trading volume include Colony Financial (NYSE: CLNY), down .37 to 18.46 and more than 6 million shares, a rise of 1,444%. Golub Capital (NASDAQ: GBDC) down .03 to 15.75 and 1.2 million shares trading, a rise of 1,124%. SRA International (NYSE: SRX) seeing rising action from traders. It is up 2.72 to 31.08 on 12.3 million shares, a rise of 840%.
Stocks/Underlying – Big Daily Change in Option Volume
RailAmerica (NYSE: RA) riding hard with option volume of 1,003 a rise of 3,117%. RA is down .04 to 17. Aon Corp. (NYSE: AON) seeing option volume rise 1,100% to 3956 contracts. Optimer Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OPTR) option volume hits 13,290, rising 484% as stock moves up 1.37 to 13.20. Linear Tech (NASDAQ: LLTC) has 12,551 options trade, up 453% as stock barely moves higher to 33.64.
Stocks – Big Daily Change in Option Open Interest
3D Systems (NASDAQ: TDSC) sees option open interest rise 420% to 2,045 as stock rises 4.60 to 53.13. BroadSoft (NASDAQ: BSFT) continues its growth this week with OI moving to 6,089, up 339% with stock rising .38 to 48.00. Triangle Petroleum (NYSE: TPLM) OI rises 316% to 2,250, and Neoprobe (AMEX: NEO) OI jumps to 30,616, up 276%.
