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Redditor's Wife Inherited Long-Dated Google Call Options: What's A Prudent Way To Handle The Position?
Monday, February 13, 2023 - 8:25am | 725A Redditor's wife inherited 130 Call options of Alphabet Inc Class A (NASDAQ:GOOGL) shares expiring in January 2025 at an average cost of $7.37. The user, titled u/WaitingToPretend, asked for thoughts on the positions on ‘r/Options' which received a significant number of comments and bits of advice...
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Tesla Call Option Holders The Big Winners From Stay-Public Decision
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 - 11:00am | 485After a big initial dip Monday, Tesla, Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) closed the day roughly flat in its first day of trading following CEO Elon Musk’s announcement that he's dropping his plan to take Tesla private. Tesla's stock is now trading well below where it was prior to Musk’s...
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How Do You Trade Options?
Friday, July 22, 2016 - 10:44am | 370In the past decade, the popularity of stock options has exploded. Online trading platforms have injected liquidity into the options market and made it easily-accessible to retail traders. But many stock traders (and even some options traders) may not fully understand what exactly a stock option is...
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Watch These 7 Huge Call Purchases In Friday Trade
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 2:21am | 229Benzinga'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. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB...
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Watch These 7 Huge Call Purchases In Thursday Trade
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 2:58am | 230Benzinga'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. Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA) Jul16 11.0...
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Watch These 6 Huge Call Purchases In Wednesday Trade
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - 1:58am | 206Benzinga'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 Tuesday's regular session. Fossil Group Inc (NASDAQ: FOSL)...
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Watch These 5 Huge Call Purchases In Tuesday Trade
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 - 12:39am | 181Benzinga'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 Monday's regular session. United Natural Foods, Inc. (...
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Options Traders Make Bullish Bets On Big China ETF
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 3:38pm | 639“Sanguine” and “trouble-free” are not terms that can be used to accurately describe the current state of affairs in Chinese equity markets, but there is no denying China exchange-traded funds have recently been perking up. Over the past month, the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China...
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Income and Appreciation with Covered Calls
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 5:07pm | 712A strategy that involves exposure to the stock market, as well as generating monthly income, sounds like a great option in the current market environment. The covered call strategy, also referred to as a buy-write strategy, involves buying shares of a stock and selling a call option against the...
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Is Amazon.com Ready for a Pullback? (AMZN)
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 12:51pm | 644Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been on a huge run, up eight of the last nine days. This run has been so quick that it has now pushed Amazon.com outside of its upper bollinger bands. Bollinger bands use the 20-day moving average and measure two standard deviations on either side. Two standard...
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AgFeed Soars on Heavy Volume
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 3:28pm | 129Shares of AgFeed Industries (NASDAQ: FEED) rose Wednesday on above-average volume after fellow agricultural company Origin Agritech (NASDAQ: SEED) completed a note repurchase and offered positive comments on its sales performance. Origin Agritech repurchased a final tranche of convertible notes...