How traders played Apple’s $2.5 billion dividend payout

August 9, 2012 Posted By: Leave a comment
Options volumes soared as speculators tried to game the company's first-ever dividend

FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) will pay its a dividend of $2.65 per share next week to shareholders of record as of Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

I expected Apple's trading volume to be heavy yesterday, as investors scrambled to buy the stock before it went ex-dividend.

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