The front month options are the most actively traded contracts on Urban at present.
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Front month put positioning contrasts with April expiry activity in far out-of-the-money put options.
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It looks like plain-vanilla call buying is the most popular tactic with Monster-bulls populating the front month.
Speculative bullish activity is heaviest in the front month, with deep out-of-the-money calls seeing the most volume.
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Meanwhile, call buying was more prevalent than selling at the most active nearer-to-the-money strikes in the front month.
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Fresh positioning in the front month calls suggests some traders expect the price of the underlying to extend gains.
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In- and out-of-the-money call selling in the front month may be the work of traders taking profits off the table.
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Put options in the front month are most active, but it appears much of the volume was generated by sellers.
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Trading traffic is heaviest in the front month where investors are picking up out-of-the-money calls at every available strike price.
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Options players cheered HSBC today by ditching downside protection, selling puts and engaging in light call buying in the front month.
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Call open interest in the front month appears to have been largely built up by investors initiating bullish stances on the stock.
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Investors have now exchanged more than 205, 000 option contracts on HPQ, with much of the activity taking place in the front month.
Investors snapped up out-of-the-money calls in the front month, suggesting the stock may have more room to run in the near term.
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The Eurodollar curve flattened as dealers sold front month futures and bought deferred maturities on account of growing liquidity fears over in Europe.
Put options in the front month are quite active, as well.
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Spivak recommends going out one month, known as the front month.
Fresh interest in front month calls on CBRL suggests one or more traders are positioning for shares in the name to extend gains in the near term.
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The result is that professional traders front-run it each month in the pre-announced couple of days before the ETF rolls over its positions into the new front month.
The most popular front-month AAPL call is the December 400 strike, where 28, 876 contracts currently reside.
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Peak front-month call open interest, meanwhile, numbers 3, 905 contracts at the November 57.50 strike.
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In the front-month series of options, the out-of-the-money November 26 and 27 strikes are most heavily populated.
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Overall, peak front-month put open interest resides at the out-of-the-money November 14 strike, totaling a hefty 75, 196 contracts.
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The heaviest accumulation of calls in the front-month November series can be found at the out-of-the-money 95 strike, numbering 2, 830 contracts.
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In fact, peak put open interest in the front-month series rests at the October 90 strike, with more than 30, 900 contracts outstanding.
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In the front-month November series (contracts expiring on the 19th), peak call open interest resides at the 15 strike, totaling 13, 016 contracts.
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The September 24 strike carries peak front-month call open interest of 12, 214 contracts, while the September 25 call has 8, 142 contracts outstanding.
With very little time until expiration, front-month options activity is especially speculative.
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Front-month gold contracts, set to expire July 27, rose to an all-time high before dropping marginally to 41, 600 by 11:47 AM in New York.
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