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Protected: As Go The Financials: So Goes The Market

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Let the Dragon “Bird-Dog” for Unusual Option Activity

Track major changes and spot potential trading opportunities with the Dragon.  Scan the market in real time for a top 50 ranking of matching stocks and their options based upon one of the following criteria: Stock Activity – stock volume, the stock’s options volume; P/E ratio, open interest or volatility Option Activity – option volume, open interest or implied volatility % Change – open interest, stock or option volume, put/call ratios or volatility – implied or historical P/E Plays – volatility plus open interest, volatility plus volume Below you will […]

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CROX gets the Boot…

CROX- For traders who have portended the waning appeal of synthetic clog maker Crocs, today’s lowering of the company’s Q1 forecast on lower sales simply states a truth long deferred for the trend shoe – namely, that Crocs are a fad and that fads tend to fall by the wayside. To be sure, there’s something about the immediate 43% drop in Crocs share price to $10.14 that smacks of a pent-up desire to sell the stock. Peril is written all over the elevated implied volatility reading in Crocs options, which […]

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The Dragon

Using “The Dragonâ€? a stock & option screener in OptionsXpress, the following stocks showed some unusual volume activity in the options market. These are just a few of the stocks that were found to have unusual option activity on Monday, April 14th. “The Dragonâ€? is just one of many resource’s that you have access to in your OptionsXpress account. I have found it to be a great way of looking for trade opportunities. XLF- Financial Select SPDR – Shares in the financial sector ETF slid more than 2% on Wachovia’s […]

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