Options

Dan Nathan spoke on CNBC's "Options Action" about Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT). He thinks the company is going to have a good year because it's going to be very active in acquisitions. It's trading at a big discount to the market and to Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT), added...

Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Friday’s regular session. Gigamon Inc (NYSE: GIMO) Oct 35.0...

Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Friday's regular session. Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) Jul 52.5 Calls:...

Carter Worth analyzed on CNBC's "Options Action" the recent break out in McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD). He identified the inverse head and shoulders pattern on the three-year chart and he concluded that the measured move higher for the stock is $150. He calculated that...

Mike Khouw shared with the viewers of CNBC's "Options Action" his bullish options strategy in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA). He thinks that the stock is going to trade higher and he wants to buy the September 140/165 call spread for $7. The trade breaks even at $147 or 8.09...

Speaking on Bloomberg Markets, Chris Kettenmann, the chief energy strategist at Macro Risk Advisors, shared his options trading idea in United States Oil Fund LP (ETF) (NYSE: USO). He wants to sell the May 10.50 straddle for $0.49, which is 4.68 percent of the current stock price. The trade starts...

On CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report", Jon Najarian said that he noticed unusually high call options volume in Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT). He believes that a big institution bought around 7,500 contracts of the June 79.50 calls in the first half of the trading session on Friday...

Benzinga Pro provides its subscribers with real-time alerts of potentially market-moving options activity. Here's a recap of the options alerts from Friday, May 19, 2017. All time stamps are in Eastern Time. 3:41:06 pm: NKE Nike Jul 52.5 Calls: 1000 @ ASK $1.44: 4932 traded vs 943 OI: Earnings...

Mike Khouw said on CNBC's "Options Action" that more puts than calls were traded in PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF) (NASDAQ: QQQ) on Thursday. Traders bought around 18,000 contracts of the May 26 expiration, 136 strike puts on Thursday and they paid $1.05 them. The trade breaks...

Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Thursday’s regular session. Fred's, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRED)...

Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Thursday's regular session. YRC Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ: YRCW) Jun...

Benzinga Pro provides its subscribers with real-time alerts of potentially market-moving options activity. Here's a recap of the options alerts from Thursday, May 18, 2017. All time stamps are in Eastern Time. 3:51:44 pm: CDNS Cadence Des Jun 34.0 Calls Sweep: 817 @ ASK $0.30: 1554 traded vs...

Since fiscal 2014, Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) management has cited weakness in the global farm economy as the primary reason for lower sales and earnings. More recently, weakness in the company’s construction equipment markets was cited as an additional reason for softer sales. Last...

Dan Deming of KKM Financial spoke on Bloomberg Markets about an options trading strategy in iShares Russell 2000 Index (ETF) (NYSE: IWM). The small-cap stocks have under performed the rest of the market on Wednesday and Deming thinks they could trade even lower. He wants to sell the August 142 call...

Benzinga's newsdesk monitors options activity to notice unusual patterns. These large volume (and often out of the money) trades were initially published intraday in Benzinga Professional . These trades were placed during Wednesday's regular session. Platform Specialty Products Corp (...