Options Activity In The Retail ETF Showing A Potential Breakdown

 program detected a single purchase of 15,000 June 33 puts for $1.54 against open interest of 3,746 contracts. The trade accounted for almost all the activity in the fund so far today,” David Russell Reports From Option Monster.

Russell Continues To Say, “The SPDR S&P Retail (XRT) fund is off 0.48 percent to $34.97 in morning trading but is up3.2 percent in the last three months, compared with the S&P 500’s 4.6 percent gain. The relative weakness contrasts with the March-September period, when the ETF outperformed the broader market by 23 percentage points.”

“Today’s put buyer will earn a profit if the fund declines at least 10 percent by June expiration. The next scheduled events that could affect the retail sector is the release of consumer sentiment data at 9:55 a.m. ET tomorrow and January same-store sales figures on Feb. 4. XRT’s largest holdings include Amazon.com, Netflix, and J. Crew,” Russell Reports.

Here are some details on the the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT):

The investment (XRT) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before expenses, the performance of an index derived from the oil and retail segment of a U.S. total market composite index. The fund uses a passive management strategy to track the total return performance of the S&P Retail Select Industry index. The index represents the retail sub-industry of the S&P Total Market index.The fund is nondiversified.

Here is a look at the June PUT activity:

Strike Symbol Last Chg Bid Ask Vol Open Int 18.00 XRY100619P00018000 0.03 0.00 0.02 0.05 0 142 19.00 XRY100619P00019000 0.04 0.00 0.04 0.07 0 114 20.00 XRY100619P00020000 0.07 0.00 0.05 0.08 0 115 21.00 XRY100619P00021000 0.07 0.00 0.07 0.10 0 91 22.00 XRY100619P00022000 0.10 0.00 0.09 0.13 0 181 23.00 XRY100619P00023000 0.42 0.00 0.12 0.17 0 80 24.00 XRY100619P00024000 0.16 0.00 0.17 0.20 0 39 25.00 XRY100619P00025000 0.25 0.00 0.22 0.25 0 1,348 26.00 XRT100619P00026000 0.34 0.00 0.28 0.32 45 288 27.00 XRT100619P00027000 0.41 0.00 0.37 0.41 0 614 28.00 XRT100619P00028000 0.37 0.00 0.49 0.52 0 2,163 29.00 XRT100619P00029000 0.70 0.00 0.63 0.66 240 690 30.00 XRT100619P00030000 0.84 0.06 0.80 0.83 10 5,811 31.00 XRT100619P00031000 1.00 0.00 1.02 1.05 4 4,574 32.00 XRT100619P00032000 1.29 0.26 1.29 1.32 157 2,746 33.00 XRT100619P00033000 1.65 0.09 1.62 1.65 40 3,746 34.00 XRT100619P00034000 2.04 0.01 2.00 2.04 440 2,140 35.00 XRT100619P00035000 2.42 0.00 2.46 2.50 0 10,498 36.00 XRT100619P00036000 3.01 0.19 2.99 3.05 40 5,848 37.00 XRT100619P00037000 3.55 0.05 3.60 3.70 47 1,289 38.00 XRT100619P00038000 4.35 0.05 4.30 4.40 33 494 39.00 XRT100619P00039000 5.00 0.00 5.05 5.15 12 1,038 40.00 XRT100619P00040000 5.70 0.24 5.85 6.00 30 894 41.00 XRT100619P00041000 5.80 0.00 6.60 6.85 0 414 42.00 XRT100619P00042000 7.20 0.00 7.50 7.80 0 427 43.00 XRT100619P00043000 7.65 0.00 8.45 8.75 0 84 44.00 XRT100619P00044000 8.35 0.00 9.40 9.70 0 72 45.00 XRT100619P00045000 9.45 0.00 10.40 10.70 0 65 46.00 XRT100619P00046000 9.95 0.00 11.35 11.65 0 72 47.00 XRT100619P00047000 11.15 0.00 12.35 12.65 0 23 48.00 XRT100619P00048000 12.30 0.00 13.35 13.65 0 19 49.00 XRT100619P00049000 13.40 0.00 14.35 14.65 0 11 50.00 XRT100619P00050000 14.35 0.00 15.35 15.65 0 76 51.00 XRT100619P00051000 15.30 0.00 16.35 16.65 0 261

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