Your intraday option s trading update. High Options Volume by Strike SPDR S&P
500 ETF (NYSE: SPY ) tops list with its SPY APR Week4 132 Put down .83 to .10 on
volume of 69,522 contracts. The SPY APR Week4 133 Calls and 133 Puts both
trade a little more than 41,000 contracts. The CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE: VIX
) May11 15 and Jun11 18 Puts both trading higher, with more than 50,000
contracts. The May 15 Put is up .10 to .15, while the Jun 18 trades up .25 to
1.00. The iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond (NYSE: TLT ) has three strikes
in the top 10 this morning. The TLT Jun11 101 Call, TLT Sep11 101 Call and the
TLT Sep11 98 Call all doing more than 50,000 contracts. The TLT is down .29 to
92.99. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC ) is top trading equity with its BAC Jul11 14
Call and the BAC Jul11 13 Call trading more than 43,000 contracts. Both are up
.01. Roy Briggs, on the advisory services side of Stutland Volatility Group, has
been watching DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH ) this morning as it, first, rose with
the market, then, fell like a stone "after a story on a court ruling with TiVo
(NASDAQ: TIVO ) hit the tape." Ruling went TiVos way. Briggs notes that before
the story there was heavy buying in the DISH May 24 Calls, nearly 13,000
contracts. DISH now down .10 to 23.77. Stutland also watching Applied Materials
(NASDAQ: AMAT ). "The AMAT July 18 calls traded 5,000 in a block. The stock is
up about 4% today but those are out of the money. Markets are tight with 1 cent
bid/ask spread," said Briggs. Major Stock Trading Volume Movers Investors like
TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO ) after the court ruling, sending it up 2.82, or nearly 34%,
to 11.19. Volume of 33.7 million shares. TiVo applauded a US federal appeals
court ruling in its intellectual property case against EchoStar and Dish
Network. TiVo claims this clears the way for it to receive "substantial
damages" from the ruling. Utility DPL Inc. (NYSE: DPL ) being taken over by
AES Corp (NYSE: AES ) for enterprise value of $4.7 billion and trading nearly 50
million shares, at 30.04. Lot's happening in Quepasa Corp. (AMEX: QPSA ) , up
.71 to 6.95 on 2 million shares. Social networker targeting Latinos yesterday
intro'd 'Wonderful City' game with a city building theme. Find more option
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