{"id":52487,"date":"2016-05-05T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52487"},"modified":"2016-05-05T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:43:01","slug":"hedge-fund-event-stirs-up-options-trading-in-select-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2016\/hedge-fund-event-stirs-up-options-trading-in-select-names.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-Fund Event Stirs up Options Trading in Select Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund managers trading ideas at the Sohn Investment Conference on Wednesday spurred a flurry of activity in the options market in select stocks, as traders jockeyed to take advantage of the potentially profitable tips mentioned at the annual assemblage.<\/p>\n<p>Options on a number of stocks saw a bump in trading volume on Wednesday as fund managers touted their long and short investment picks.<\/p>\n<p>The spike in options activity was particularly noticeable for stocks whose options are usually lightly traded, including Bank Of The Ozarks Inc (OZRK.O) and Kraton Performance Polymers Inc (KRA.N).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-funds-sohn-options-idUSKCN0XV2IF\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund managers trading ideas at the Sohn Investment Conference on Wednesday spurred a flurry of activity in the options market in select stocks, as traders jockeyed to take advantage of the potentially profitable tips mentioned at the annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52488,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52487\/revisions\/52488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}