{"id":19284,"date":"2011-02-10T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=19284"},"modified":"2011-02-10T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T23:00:29","slug":"options-report-february-10th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/10\/options-report-february-10th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Options Report: February 10th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the call side, Checkpoint Software is seeing more than 16 times the  normal call volume after the company announced a share repurchase  program. Shares of the company are up 2.5% today. Also topping the list  of active call options are consumer retail firms American Eagle  Outfitters and GameStop. American Eagle is trading up around 9% today on  speculation that the company may be a takeover target. Also of note in  call options are Teradata and Whole Foods, both of which recently  reported better than expected earnings. Taking a look at the put side of  the ledger, Akamai has had about 11 times the average amount of puts  traded. Shares of the company are trading down around 15% today after  the company posted disappointing Q1 guidance. DR Horton and Cisco are  also active with 7.4 and 6.7 times the average amount of put volume  today. Rackspace Hosting is seeing high put option activity and is set  to report earnings after the market closes today. Finally, entertainment  software maker Activision Blizzard rounds out the list with 5.6 times  the average amount of puts the day after the company issued  disappointing guidance and announced the end of its Guitar Hero  franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the call side, Checkpoint Software is seeing more than 16 times the normal call volume after the company announced a share repurchase program. Shares of the company are up 2.5% today. Also topping the list of active call options are consumer retail firms American Eagle Outfitters and GameStop. American Eagle is trading up around &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/10\/options-report-february-10th-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Options Report: February 10th, 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}