Taking an early look at the options market, we found the following names that may be worth watching throughout the day for further indication of investor expectations given their options volume and implied volatility movement.
Stocks seeing volatility buying (bullish call buying/bearish put buying):
Calls:
- HRBN Apr 20 calls are seeing interest following earnings and CNBC discussion (see 12:29 comment) on four Chinese reverse merger cos (volume: 11.7K, open int: 1490, implied vol: ~90%, prev day implied vol: 83%)
Puts:
- iPath DJ-UBS Commodity Index TR ETN (DJP) Apr 47 puts (volume: 4030, open int: 0, implied vol: ~25%, prev day implied vol: 23%)
Stocks seeing volatility selling:
- LULU, GES, FDX implied vol is lower following earnings/guidance
Sentiment: The CBOE Put/Call ratio is currently: 1.10.. VIX: (27.38, -2.02, -2.0%).
This week is March expiration week — tomorrow Friday March 18 is the last day to trade Mar options.
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(Cronkite–not seeing a “talk to us” link at top of page)comment– this update is, once again, right on time
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