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Cerus Corporation (NASDAQ: CERS) is sight a surge after announcing that the land regulatory body titled Swissmedic has approved the ingest of platelet components aerated with Cerusâ INTERCEPT Blood System. The company noted that this support extends permissible hardware instance for platelets to heptad days with INTERCEPT treatment, compared to five days without treatment. Be advised that the land market is a small market, but is also a key to other market. Cerus shares at 8:48 AM EST have already traded 150,000 shares and the terminal change was up over 30% at $2.35. Average volume is about 370,000 shares and the market cap was only $58 million as of the close yesterday. The 52-week high here is $5,02, so this one is not off its charts. -JON OGG
We are sight some unusual call option activity in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) today. Because of the sort of strike prices, it is impracticable to tell how these are every being used. Most probable it is ahead of Friday’s expiration and is probable roll-out trades in the options moving from August to Sept while there is at least a lowercase bit of time value left in the options.
So we have seen in August some 49,754 CALL contracts in these contracts alone, and that does not include the further discover of the money and further in the money contracts. Of the PUTS traded, we have already seen 45,651 and that likewise does not include the other in and discover of the money contracts not referenced. In September, we have seen a amount of 18,985 of the traded CALLS not including further in and discover of the money calls. The sum for the traded PUTS in Sept was 14,923, and that likewise does not include the other contracts not referenced.
SEPTEMBER SELECT CALLS/PUTS
CALL$   Volume   Op.Int.
$155.00Â Â Â 4,056Â Â Â 16,633
$160.00Â Â Â 16,577Â Â Â 21,450
$165.00Â Â Â 20,683Â Â Â 26,646
$170.00Â Â Â 7,043Â Â Â 26,761
$175.00Â Â Â 1,395Â Â Â 15,658
PUT$   Volume   Op.Int.
$150.00Â Â Â 7,686Â Â Â 24,089
$155.00Â Â Â 7,173Â Â Â 21,982
$160.00Â Â Â 23,074Â Â Â 20,429
$165.00Â Â Â 7,718Â Â Â 10,733
OCTOBER SELECT CALLS/PUTS
CALL$   Volume   Op.Int.
$160.00Â Â Â 2,576Â Â Â 7,512
$165.00Â Â Â 5,055Â Â Â 15,285
$170.00Â Â Â 3,392Â Â Â 9,839
$175.00Â Â Â 3,065Â Â Â 8,467
$180.00Â Â Â 2,308Â Â Â 9,661
$185.00Â Â Â 1,353Â Â Â 5,987
$190.00Â Â Â 1,236Â Â Â 2,308
PUT$   Volume   Op.Int.
$140.00Â Â Â 2,041Â Â Â 34,925
$145.00Â Â Â 1,177Â Â Â 22,052
$150.00Â Â Â 1,884Â Â Â 21,178
$155.00Â Â Â 1,521Â Â Â 5,946
$160.00Â Â Â 3,366Â Â Â 15,843
$165.00Â Â Â 4,934Â Â Â 6,373
JON C. OGG
August 18, 2009
M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB) is active with a super change illumination up the extraordinary actions screen as a 10,000 contract bearish October $45/$40 place spread trades. This is celebrity considering shares are at $58.11, as the trade, which is definitely of institutional size, is anticipating shares of the Northeast bank to fall around 30% in coming months. MTB Q2 profit fell 75% and it is possibly a bank that will need to go to the mart to improve capital, as it is considered a regional bank with a capital shortfall. Shares are nearing the $60 field resistance level from April highs, and prior support levels. However, upon further analyse there also was a block of more than 75,000 shares bought at the aforementioned time, so this appears to be a hedge using a spread instead of the traditional straight place purchase.
JOE KUNKLE, OptionsHawk.com
Novavax Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX) is soaring on news that its experimental H1N1 swine flu vaccine was trenchant in animal tests. The vaccine won’t be approved nor ready for advertizement ingest in humans for two years. At 8:53 AM EST we have already seen over 650,000 shares trade hands and th last print has the stock up 10.5% at $4.96. The 52-week high is $5.59 and cipher intensity is now over 6 million shares now that swine flu is such a buzz-word for traders. -JON OGG
Rockwell Medical Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: RMTI) seeing unusual options intensity as 1,801 February $10 calls change versus OI of 10, with buyers leading the way in multiple large lots, as shares change for $8.77. RMTI is in the impact of Phase 2b studies for its iron equal therapy for dialysis patients, calles SFP for short. Results are exxpected in Q1 of 2010, likely the reason for using February calls in this trade. Phase 3 is expected to start in Q4 of this year, and some Phase 2b data should be free by the end of September. The intensity is 500X the cipher call intensity for Rockwell.
JOE KUNKLE, OptionsHawk.com
AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) is seeing monster call options activity today. Unfortunately, this looks more same it is dividend capture trading than it is anything sinister or based upon rumors. On the company’s site, it lists the Q3 dividend dates as:
Here is the call choice activity in AFLAC shares today for just the August-2009 expirations that suspire this Friday:
Strike.. Volume…op.Int.
$10.00.. 27,000.. 3,000
$20.00.. 70,000.. 635
$22.50.. 15,300.. 3
$24.00.. 4,800… 35
$25.00.. 17,709.. 44
$32.00.. 26,700.. 421
$33.00.. 13,200.. 7
$34.00.. 15,005.. 73
$35.00.. 63,585.. 385
$36.00.. 15,630.. 376
$37.00.. 44,408.. 543
Jon C. Ogg
August 17, 2009
InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDCC) is effort spanked this farewell after a patent ruling came from the International Trade Commission that went in favor of Nokia (NOK) rather than for InterDigital. Shares are down sharply by almost one-third on the news. IDCC had sued Nokia for infringment. Shares of IDCC are down 26% at $21.75 on 90,000 shares as of 8:50 AM EST. Be advised that this traded almost 200,000 shares after the close on weekday after this ruling came out. This trades only about 600,000 shares per period so we can expect an exponential intensity period today in IDCC. The 52-week range here is $16.20 to $33.69.