ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
IMAX sold off almost 10% the day after heavy bullish trading on the stock’s options. This setback proved temporary as IMAX immediately turned around and set fresh 10-year highs on Monday. The chart below shows the recent action: *Chart created using TeleChart: The payoff on the calls has been tremendous so far. The March 15 … Read more
Interpreting the trading volume in options is typically difficult (I did an analysis in three parts last year). But I am most fascinated when a herd of speculators get caught leaning in the very wrong direction. This is what happened with IMAX. Schaeffer’s Research reported on heavy, bullish activity in the trading of IMAX options … Read more