”We’re telling clients there’s an attractive buying opportunity not too far down the road,” says Strategas Research Partners head of technical analysis.
The miners landed center stage again after Equinox Minerals made an offer to buy Lundin Mining, a move that could trigger a bidding war with Inmet Mining.
Marathon Oil has been exploding higher this year, and the upside activity continued yesterday.
Level 3 Communications has been enhancing its services, and traders are looking for the tech stock to rise a few levels.
Intuit is expected to keep growing in the consumer segment, and the buyers are following up on last week's bullish activity ahead of its earnings report tomorrow (Thursday).
As Cisco Systems struggles, rival Juniper Networks is on the rise.
Many traders are awaiting results from Cisco Systems after the bell today (Wednesday), but it was rival Juniper Networks that turned heads yesterday in the option market.
Anadarko engages in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas, in the U.S., the Gulf of Mexico and Algeria. The stock, which rose 1.07 percent to $78.32 on Friday, took a massive hit after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last spring...
Minefinders has been choppy to say the least recently, but Thursday our screens lit up with bullish option activity.
Halliburton has been ripping higher recently, and traders believe that it might have enough energy for even more.
The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF is always a popular name in the option market, and yesterday traders were taking downside positions.
The company has spent more than $6 billion in acquisitions in recent months, and investors have been attracted to its 3 percent dividend yield as well as its growth prospects.
Option trading is often active in Mylan, and the generic drug maker was lighting up OptionMonster tracking systems again as it hit a five-year intraday high.
Ford Motor moved progressively higher this week, and option traders are betting that it has more fuel in the tank.
It's rare that we get to speak with Goldman Sachs but on Monday analyst Adrianne Shapira revealed why she's bullish Target and not Walmart in a live interview!
BP saw upside option activity on volume that was nearly four times its daily average Thursday as the rest of the market slowed to a crawl. The energy company finished the session at $43.89, down 0.14 percent on the day, but rose 0.25 percent in after-hours trading
U.S. companies have recently gone on a “buying spree” for emerging market assets, but the money is about to flow in the opposite direction, with the BRICs using their cash reserves to buy up American firms, said Tim Seymour, founder of Seygem Asset Management.
Steel Dynamics lit up with call buying early this week and saw another wave of upside activity late Thursday.
Petrohawk Energy is a name that has lit up OptionMonster's tracking systems on and off for quite some time, and traders showed yesterday that they still like the oil and natural-gas company.
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