Mon, May 28, 2012, 7:44 AM EDT - U.S. Markets closed for Memorial Day

Bulls bet on more gains in Medivation

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MDVN87.38-1.54

Medivation has been exploding higher, and the bulls are looking for more.

optionMONSTER's Heat Seeker tracking system detected the purchase of more than 5,000 March 70 calls, most of which priced for $4.30. Volume was almost 4 times open interest in the strike.

The trade reflects a belief that the high-flying drug developer will continue to rally over the next month. The long calls lock in an entry price for buying the stock and imply that it will close at $74.30 or higher on expiration.

MDVN fell 1.14 percent to $67.93 on Friday but has more than quadrupled in the last six months. It's been rallying on positive test results for its MDV3100 treatment for prostate cancer.

The market also seems to consider the company a potential takeover target. Other drug developers, including Pharmacyclics and Idenix Pharmaceuticals, have been surging as well, especially after Bristol-Myers Squibb paid a huge premium for Inhibitex last month.

Overall option volume in MDVN was twice the average amount on Friday, with calls outnumbering puts by 21 to 1, according to the Heat Seeker.

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  • me  •  Richardson, Texas  •  3 months ago
    Wall St's continued greed and avarice has manipulated oil up to $100 a barrel. This is an enormous threat to the world’s economy! If you don't know it; listen up! Oil refineries all over the world are shutting down! Refineries in Hawaii, St Croix, Houston, Philly, Delaware, other places in the US, and Europe are shutting down! They’re shutting down for three reasons (1) The price of oil is too high. A refiner’s margins are so small at these high prices, not only can they not make money, most refineries have lost money. (Thanks speculators on Wall St!) (2) There is a glut of oil and distillates and no place left to store it. It’s been this way for a while (3 years). Some refineries are turning into oil storage facilities. They can make more money from renting tanks to banks and hedge funds than they can make by producing product. (3) Due to the European oil embargo on Iran, Iran is selling oil at a heavily discounted rate to Asian refineries who will sell refined products to us cheaper than American refineries. Bottom line; WE ARE SO SCREWED!!! If we aren’t drawn in to a war with Iran that affects the Strait of Hormuz , the bottleneck that much of the worlds oil has to pass through, then we’ll be affected by the refineries shutting down. Eventually, as our economies improve there will be terrible shortages of product. It takes time for refineries to come back on line. Expect shortages to skyrocket oil and distillates to the sky. Repeal the Commodities Modernization Act of 2000 and the Financial Modernization Act of 1999 and get speculators out of the Commodities markets!!!
 
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