Pete Najarian Sees Unusual Options Activity In Walgreens And AT&T


27% profits every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his options buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads... BUYING options. Most traders don't even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here's how he does it.


On CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report", Pete Najarian spoke about unusually high options activity in Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).


27% profits every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his options buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads... BUYING options. Most traders don't even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here's how he does it.


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He said options traders are buying deep in the money calls in Walgreens. They bought the April 65 calls and Najarian explained that this could be a stock replacement strategy. He has a long position in the name.

Around 20,000 contracts of the April 37 calls were traded in the first half of the trading session in AT&T. Traders paid around $1.25 for these calls, which sets the break even for the trade at $38.25 or 5.78 percent above the current stock price.

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