Sizable Options Trade Initiated On Men’s Wearhouse
by Option Review - August 16th, 2013 4:07 pm
Today’s tickers: MW & BBD
MW - Men’s Wearhouse, Inc. – A three-legged options trade initiated on men’s apparel retailer, Men’s Wearhouse, this morning prepares for shares in the name to potentially dip to the lowest level since April during the next few months. The stock is down 2.0% today to stand at $37.95 as of 11:30 a.m. ET. It looks like one trader sold call options to partially offset the cost of buying a bear put spread on the stock. The strategist appears to have purchased a 3,075-lot Nov $32/$38 put spread at a net premium of $2.25 each, and sold 3,075 Nov $40 calls at a premium of $1.90 apiece, reducing the net cost of the position to $0.35 per contract. The trader starts making money if shares in MW decline 0.80% from the current price of $37.95 to trade below the effective breakeven point on the downside at $37.65. Maximum potential profits of $5.65 per contract are available on the position should shares in Men’s Wearhouse drop more than 15% to $32.00 by November expiration. The options play may be an outright bearish bet on the stock, or could be a protective play to hedge a long position in the underlying shares. Men’s Wearhouse is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings after the closing bell on September 11th.
BBD - Banco Bradesco SA – Activity in Banco Bradesco options today suggests traders are positioning for heightened volatility in the price of the underlying in the near term. Overall options volume on BBD of around 1,550 contracts just before midday in New York is more than twice the stock’s average daily volume of 720 contracts, with much of the trading centered in the September expiry options. Shares in the name, down roughly 25% year to date, are currently off 1.3% on…
GDWheee Friday – Could be a Wild Ride!
by phil - April 30th, 2010 8:30 am
Attention ladies and gentlemen:
The stock market will soon be leaving the station, please secure all personal items, pull down the safety bar (our Disaster Hedges) and keep all body parts inside ride at all times. Well you know you can follow all of the safety instructions and STILL get smacked in the face with a black swan (like our friend Fabio, pictured here) which is why we elected to get back to cash ahead of this report. The markets were just too insane this week and who the heck knows if Europe will still be a Union on Monday or what the GDP number is going to be (but I do think it's a miss).
Since our biggest weekend fear is financial panic in Europe, our cash US dollars will become more valuable in a crisis and if the market drops, all the better as we can ride back in and do some bargain hunting. If the market takes off on good GDP and Greece is "fixed" and Spain is "fixed" and Portugal and Ireland are not really a problem (especially for MS and JPM) and the CRIMINAL charges against Goldman look beatable and and the Financial Reform Bill doesn't disrupt the market with a disorderly breakup of the big banks and the Bank of International Settlements Report continues to be ignored and the run on the Greek banks doesn't spread to other STUPID counties – well, then we can BUYBUYBUY because, if all this doesn't matter, then it's very likely that the entire planet Earth could explode but Wall Street will keep ticking higher.
Yep, I can't wait to ride this baby mindlessly higher! After all, what can go wrong? BIDU is ONLY $710 a share, BLK is $190, CMP is $76, GOLD is $84, BUCY is $65, FAST is $56, MMM is $90, FOSL $40, F $13.50, DECK $149, SHOO $55, TPX $35, LZB $14, CTB $22, NOG $16, CEO $176, FTI $75, CLB $150, CIB $46, BBD $19, TD $75, BCA $45, BAP $87, ITUB $22, EDU $94, WYNN $93, FFIV $72, CY $14, CREE $77, UPS $70, UNP $78…
These were stocks I was looking at last week, when I told members I thought it was easier to construct a Sell List than our usual…