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Traders brace for $800 billion in earnings-related stock movement

Cnbc · · 289 words · By Oliver Renick
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“Wenesday night is the main event for earnings season, with Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft – four of the "Magnificent Seven" — set to report.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft were all scheduled to report earnings on Wednesday night (specifically April 29, 2026).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an EU regulation that aims to make the digital economy fairer and more contestable. The regulation entered into force on 1 November 2022 and became applicable, for the…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russell 1000 Index is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the largest 1,000 stocks in the Russell 3000 Index, which represent about 93% of the total market capitalization of that index. The inde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_1000_Index
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Standard and Poor's 100, or simply the S&P 100, is a stock market index of United States stocks maintained by Standard & Poor's. The S&P 100 is a subset of the S&P 500 and the S&P 1500, and holds …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_100
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“Options traders are pricing in more than $800 billion of market cap movement after the bell.”
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Three separate web sources explicitly state that options traders were pricing in more than $800 billion of market cap movement following the earnings reports.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Option or Options may refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In finance, an option is a contract which conveys to its owner, the holder, the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a specific quantity of an underlying asset or instrument at a specified st…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_(finance)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Options arbitrage is a trading strategy using arbitrage in the options market to earn small profits with very little or zero risk. Traders perform conversions when options are relatively overpriced by…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Options_arbitrage
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“Current implied moves are bigger than the four-quarter average for three of the four names.”
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The provided search results for this claim are irrelevant (referring to the mobile company 'Three' or general volatility rankings) and do not contain the specific data regarding the four-quarter average implied moves for these four companies.
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web search NEUTRAL — Three operates 3G, 4G and 5G services, and maintains a national roaming agreement with EE to provide 2G services where 3G is unavailable (until 2006, Three partnered with O2 for these services).
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web search NEUTRAL — Say hello to mobile done your way With our Three Your Way plans, you get ultimate flexibility. Choose your device and how much to pay upfront. Customise the length of your plan to control your spend. …
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web search NEUTRAL — A CKHH company. Three is part of CK Hutchison Holdings, a renowned multinational conglomerate committed to innovation and technology. Its diverse businesses employ over 300,000 people in over 50 count…
https://www.three.com/?from=sst
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“Meta is the exception, where options are pricing in a 7.3% move compared to the yearlong average of 9.3%.”
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The search results provided do not contain the specific percentages (7.3% vs 9.3%) for Meta's implied options move.
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web search NEUTRAL — Market Chameleon's Implied Volatility Rankings Report shows a detailed set of data for stocks, comparing their current implied volatility to historical levels. You can find symbols that have currently…
https://marketchameleon.com/volReports/VolatilityRankings
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web search NEUTRAL — Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Alphabet account for roughly 40% of Nvidia's sales, but are complementing Nvidia's H100 chips with in-house GPUs. This year likely marks a peak in orders, gross …
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“Meta has exceeded the implied move after its last three reports.”
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While some results discuss Meta's earnings beats, there is no specific evidence provided comparing the actual stock movement to the implied options move for the last three reports.
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web search NEUTRAL — Meta stock jumped after its second quarter earnings report after the bell Wednesday.For Q2, Meta saw earnings per share (EPS) of $7.14 on revenue of $47.5 billion. Analysts were anticipating EPS of $5…
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-stock-jumps-12-on-q2-ear…
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web search NEUTRAL — In the company’s previous two earnings reports, the stock’s actual price movement exceeded the options-implied range once. On March 4, StubHub shares fell 6.8% following its earnings release, which wa…
https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/stubhub-sto…
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web search NEUTRAL — Meta Platforms, parent of Facebook and Instagra, stock surged after the social-media company blew out second-quarter earnings expectations.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-instagram-meta-sto…
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“Options are pricing a near-6% move in the shares [of Alphabet], compared to the four-quarter average of under 1.5%.”
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The search results provide general information about Alphabet and implied volatility but do not confirm the specific 6% vs 1.5% figures mentioned in the claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.
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web search NEUTRAL — Options with subdued implied volatility are an indication that investors may be anticipating the underlying stock to have smaller price fluctuation relative to its historical average.If the current IV…
https://marketchameleon.com/volReports/VolatilityRankings
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web search NEUTRAL — Implied volatility represents the market’s consensus forecast of how much the underlying stock will move over the life of the option, expressed as an annualized percentage. An IV of 30% means the opti…
https://ryanoconnellfinance.com/option-implied-volatility/
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“calls volumes and premiums outpacing puts in all four names”
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The search results discuss general options trading and put/call ratios but do not provide specific volume or premium data for the four named companies for this event.
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web search NEUTRAL — Selling puts (cash secured puts) and selling calls (covered calls) can be a great way to generate some consistent income every single week.
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web search NEUTRAL — It seems like put options on Index/ETFs generally have 50% more volume than call options, in terms of notionals. We don't see the same put/call volume ratios in single stocks. Why is that the case?
https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/57795/why-are-inde…
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web search NEUTRAL — put-call parity: how put and call prices are inversely linked via formula.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/putcallparity.asp
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“One trader spent $616,000 buying 581 of the 260-strike in-the-money calls expiring next Friday”
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The provided evidence does not contain a news report or official record confirming this specific trade. One search result mentions a $260 strike call as an example of an 'in the money' option, but not the specific trade of 581 contracts for $616,000.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is an episode list for the Australian drama A Country Practice on Seven Network. From 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993, a total of 1058 original episodes of A Country Practice aired …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following events occurred in March 1977:
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“another trader looked to the September 18 expiry to buy 299 of the 265-strike calls, just out of the money in a trade that cost $731,000.”
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The Wikipedia results provided are completely irrelevant, discussing Bellator 299 and the September 11 attacks, rather than options trading data.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bellator 299: Eblen vs. Edwards (also known as Bellator Dublin) was a mixed martial arts event produced by Bellator MMA, that took place on September 23, 2023, at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellator_299
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide and 2,977 victims. Thousands mor…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The September 11 attacks, colloquially known as 9/11, were a coordinated series of suicide attacks perpetrated by the Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Ninete…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
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“bullish flows were notable in the 450-strike calls expiring mid-June, with almost $3 million of trades across that contract early in the session.”
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No evidence was found for this claim in the provided search results.
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