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CBS Put Options Active Ahead Of Earnings After The Close


by Option Review - May 1st, 2013 5:53 pm

Today’s tickers: CBS, DWA & EEM

CBS - CBS Corp. – Shares in media and entertainment company, CBS Corp., are advancing today ahead of the company’s first-quarter earnings report after the closing bell. The stock is up 1.2% at $46.31 just after midday in New York, but options activity on CBS this morning indicates some traders are bracing for the price of the underlying to pull back. Front month at- and out-of-the-money put options are the most actively traded contracts as measured by volume, with the $44 strike calls seeing the most volume of any single striking price. Less than 10 minutes after U.S. markets opened for trading today, one or more traders started snapping up the May $44 strike puts, buying roughly 2,500 lots at an average premium of $0.55 each. The bearish options make money if shares in CBS drop more than 6.0% from the current level to breach the average breakeven point on the downside at $43.45 by May expiration. Options traders appear to be buying the May $45 and $46 strike puts today as well.

DWA - DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. – Shares in DreamWorks Animation are up more than 6.0% at $20.46 near midday in New York after the company reported a surprise first-quarter profit and higher-than-expected revenue after the closing bell on Tuesday. According to a press release issued by the Glendale, California-based company this morning, DreamWorks agreed to acquire AwesomenessTV, a teen network on YouTube, for approximately $33 million in cash. Shares in DreamWorks are up more than 25% year to date, and it looks like some options players are positioning for the stock to extend gains in the near term. The Jun $22.5 strike calls attracted the most volume during the first half of the trading session, with upwards of 2,800 lots changing hands versus open interest of 733 contracts. Time and sales data indicates the bulk of the volume was purchased at a premium of $0.25 each. The bullish position starts making money if shares in DWA rally 11%…


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Bears Crowd Chesapeake Weekly Puts As Shares Slide


by Option Review - May 2nd, 2012 1:48 pm

Today’s tickers: CHK, FLS & CBS

CHK - Chesapeake Energy Corp. – Traders positioning for shares in the second-largest U.S. natural gas driller to potentially drop to lows not seen in years are snapping up weekly put options this morning. The stock is down more than 13.2% at $17.00 as of 11:00 am ET after Chesapeake Energy Corp. reported a surprise loss in the first quarter amid continued concern and uncertainty surrounding actions of the Company’s CEO. Bearish interest is notable in the May 04 ’12 $16 strike puts, with more than 5,100 of those contracts purchased earlier in the session for an average premium of $0.10 apiece. Put buyers may turn a quick profit if shares in Chesapeake decline another 6.5% to breach the breakeven price of $15.90 by expiration. Weekly put buyers acting ahead of the earnings report appear to have done well for themselves, with the May 04 ’12 $19 strike puts purchased around 4,800 times on Tuesday for an average premium of $0.33 apiece. Less than 24 hours later, those same $19 strike put options are six times as expensive, trading at $1.97 per contract on Wednesday morning.

FLS - Flowserve Corp. – Shares in the provider of pump systems and control valves are up sharply on Wednesday morning, trading up 4.0% at $118.06 as of 11:15 am in New York. The stock slipped slightly earlier in the week following the Company’s first-quarter earnings report, but have more than made up for that pullback today. Flowserve appeared on our ‘hot by options volume’ market scanner in the first hour of the session after one strategist initiated a sizable put spread in the June expiry. It looks like the trader purchased a 1,500-lot June $95/$105 spread for a net premium of $0.85 apiece. The put…



Pandora Call Options Pop As Shares Improve


by Option Review - April 19th, 2012 2:17 pm

Today’s tickers: P, CBS & XCO

Tags: CBS, P, XCO


Monday Market Movement – Trying to Get Bullish

by phil - March 19th, 2012 8:23 am We are still trying to get more bullish. 

Investors Hungry for Smithfield Foods Options as Shares Rally


by Option Review - March 24th, 2011 4:05 pm

Today’s tickers: SFD, SD, CBS & BMTI

SFD - Smithfield Foods, Inc. – Shares in the hog producer and pork processing company rallied as much as 5.95% this afternoon to touch an intraday- and more than two-year high of $24.04 following an upgrade to ‘buy’ from ‘hold’ with a 12-month target share price of $28.00 at BB&T Capital Markets. Options on Smithfield Foods are more active than usual today, but investors are favoring puts over calls as of 12:40pm. More than 2.6 puts are trading on SFD at present for each single call in action. Put volume is heaviest at the July $23 strike where more than 4,340 contracts have changed hands on open interest of just 609 lots. Investors bought almost all of the put options at the July $23 strike for a premium of $1.50 apiece. Put buyers make money if shares in the packaged meat provider plunge 10.6% from today’s high of $24.04 to breach the effective breakeven price of $21.50 ahead of July expiration. Demand for puts on the stock spread to the lower July $22 strike where more than 1,750 puts were picked up at a premium of $1.10 each, versus previously existing open interest of 213 contracts. Traders long the puts stand prepared to profit in the event that Smithfield’s shares drop 13.0% in the next four months to trade below the effective breakeven price of $20.90 by expiration day. The closeness in the timing of the put transactions at these strikes suggest one investor could be responsible for most if not all of the put activity described. The trader or traders responsible for the put buying may be outright bearish on Smithfield Foods through July expiration, or are perhaps building up downside protection on a long position in the underlying stock. The pork producer is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings ahead of the opening bell on June 16, 2011.…


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Bullish Strategies Abound as Market Posts Gains


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TLP: About F#^king Time

by ilene - July 14th, 2010 11:25 am

 Yeah, but what about intentional f-bombs?


A federal appeals court struck down a Federal Communications Commission policy on indecency Tuesday, saying that regulations barring the use of “fleeting expletives” on radio and television violated the First Amendment because they were vague and could inhibit free speech.

The decision, which many constitutional scholars expect to be appealed to the Supreme Court, stems from a challenge by Fox, CBS and other broadcasters to the F.C.C.’s decision in 2004 to begin enforcing a stricter standard of what kind of language is allowed on free, over-the-air television.

The stricter policy followed several incidents that drew widespread public complaint, including Janet Jackson’s breast-baring episode at the 2004 Super Bowl and repeated instances of profanity by celebrities, including Cher, Paris Hilton and Bono, during the live broadcasts of awards programs. The Janet Jackson incident did not involve speech but it drew wide public outrage that spurred a crackdown by the F.C.C.

In a unanimous three-judge decision, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York said that the F.C.C.’s current policy created “a chilling effect that goes far beyond the fleeting expletives at issue here” because it left broadcasters without a reliable guide to what the commission would find offensive.

The appeals court emphasized that it was not precluding federal regulation of broadcast standards. “We do not suggest that the F.C.C. could not create a constitutional policy,” the court said. “We hold only that the F.C.C.’s current policy fails constitutional scrutiny.”

So the court gives the FCC a fleeting "F" for FAIL. And the best part is that the judges totally let loose with all kinds of profanity in the ruling.

Tags: CBS, censorship, Constitution, court, Court of Appeals, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Fox, Free Speech, indecency, language, media, Supreme Court


PSW Rewind of 2009 – The First Quarter

by phil - January 1st, 2010 2:42 pm Thursday's close was very exciting, wasn't it? January – Waiting for Obama, or Something, to Change 






























































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