Bank of America bulls buy call

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Paper bought 30,000 BAC Dec 2 weekly 21.5 calls for .02, which was the offer and, based on open interest, is likely an opening trade.

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Bank of America Corp., trading 20.36 (up .07) with an IV30 of 25.74 up 1.05 and an HV10 of 40.69, saw a bullish out of the money call buyer today.  The stock, with an ADV of 412,000 and open interest of 7.7 million contracts, saw a customer buy 30,000 of the Dec 2 weekly 21.5 calls for .02, which was the offer and, based on open interest, is likely an opening trade.
This appears to be a customer that thinks there could be continued upside in BAC through the end of next week.  The trade will reach maximum profit if BAC runs above 21.5 by a week from Friday.  The stock has been outpacing IV, thus this could be a play on volatility being too cheap.  Alternatively, while there is no stock in this trade, it could be a hedge for someone establishing a new short although this is less likely.
This trade is aggressively bullish volatility and bullish the underlying.


Read more:  http://www.theoptionsinsider.com/bac-bulls-buy-calls/#ixzz4R5hRFrJg

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