Replies to post #5124 on Halozyme Therapeutics Inc (HALO)

[XenaLives]

The reason I included the screen shot from 11/20 is to show that 8000 options closed in the money. Lots of head fakery on the options it seems. December actually included the $11's by a hair. That's why I started saving the screen shots, it seemed to me that the price was manipulated to keep the purchase price as low as possible but close the $11's in the money.

$ 11- $14 buys were not just retail IMO. The low volume walk down kept options prices low - see bottom of the page for options on 1/11 when the stock was at $13 and 1/3 when it was below $10.

Not looking to trade options, just studying their effect because HALO seems to be so highly controlled and my working theory is that the Big Boys want to end up with almost all the marbles here.

 
                 open    high     low    close 
 01/24/17	11.64	11.815	11.14	11.61	982,255 
 01/23/17	11.50	12.05	11.38	11.59	2,130,086 
 01/20/17	11.10	11.54	10.965	11.50	2,006,398 
 01/19/17	11.26	11.30	10.81	11.08	1,044,029 
 01/18/17	10.93	11.29	10.74	11.27	1,517,555 
 01/17/17	11.22	11.3012	10.78	10.89	1,775,547 
 01/13/17	11.81	12.11	11.28	11.39	2,091,160 
 01/12/17	11.71	12.25	11.34	11.86	1,935,986 
 01/11/17	12.83	13.16	11.90	11.91	2,823,627 
 01/10/17	13.93	14.03	12.66	12.89	4,803,439 
 01/09/17	13.38	14.36	13.24	14.24	4,065,292 
 01/06/17	12.35	13.77	12.3001	13.38	9,144,242 
 01/05/17	11.79	12.79	11.385	12.61	16,924,410 
 01/04/17	10.02	10.79	9.98	10.69	1,607,231 
 01/03/17	10.09	10.23	9.68	9.99	1,032,900 
 12/30/16	9.95	10.14	9.81	9.88	805,487 
 12/29/16	9.92	9.9904	9.69	9.94	1,455,456 
 12/28/16	10.41	10.42	9.89	9.91	1,393,311 
 12/27/16	10.63	10.77	10.30	10.31	841,440 
 12/23/16	10.20	10.60	10.1362	10.56	949,066 
 12/22/16	10.85	10.85	10.15	10.22	1,056,267 
 12/21/16	11.28	11.35	10.78	10.78	815,192 
 12/20/16	11.52	11.73	11.23	11.31	1,020,667 
 12/19/16	11.63	12.00	11.29	11.34	1,047,355 
 12/16/16	11.27	11.67	11.25	11.66	1,894,390 
 12/15/16	11.03	11.51	10.90	11.25	1,160,081 
 12/14/16	10.98	11.19	10.79	10.98	900,935 
 12/13/16	11.34	11.54	10.96	11.01	965,594 
 12/12/16	11.34	11.68	11.19	11.26	892,963 
 12/09/16	12.09	12.09	11.51	11.53	1,006,017 
 12/08/16	11.28	11.66	11.05	11.63	1,177,096 
 12/07/16	11.49	11.565	10.99	11.31	1,666,109 
 12/06/16	11.70	11.99	11.36	11.88	1,243,549 
 12/05/16	11.57	11.90	11.27	11.82	921,610 
 12/02/16	11.21	11.56	11.08	11.37	841,679 
 12/01/16	11.95	11.96	11.18	11.23	1,446,825 
 11/30/16	12.14	12.25	11.69	11.81	767,220 
 11/29/16	11.86	12.22	11.69	12.07	1,655,164 
 11/28/16	12.91	12.91	11.85	11.86	1,551,076 
 11/25/16	12.71	13.11	12.45	12.99	780,597 
 11/23/16	12.22	12.74	12.00	12.65	1,442,175 
 11/22/16	12.72	12.91	12.44	12.66	1,391,623 
 11/21/16	12.04	12.71	11.85	12.64	1,500,150 
 11/18/16	13.06	13.22	12.585	12.83	1,571,488