Option Midday Movers March 31

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Your intraday options trading update.

High Options Volume by Strike

Citi (NYSE: C) back on top here with the C Apr 11 4.5 Call selling at .05 with volume of 104,234, followed by iShares MSCI Japan Index (NYSE: EWJ) at .16 with 40,055 contracts trading. The SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) has been busy with three strikes in the 10 highest trading strikes. The SPY 1Q 11 133 Call is down to .12 with 38,229 contracts traded.

Stocks/Underlying – High Option Volume

Major option volume in the SPY with the ETF at 132.88 and 580,392 contracts traded. The S&P 500 Index Options (CBOE: SPX) was busy as usual with volume of 169,350, followed buy the PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) unchanged at 57.35 and 154,856 options trading. One equity seeing large options volume is the Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) down 1.74 to 41.73. Options trading reached 73, 892 this morning.

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Major Stock Trading Volume Movers

Stocks seeing the largest jumps in trading volume include Sciquest (NASDAQ: SCI) with 952,356 shares traded, an increase of 1328%, as SQI dropped .15 to 14.45. Ambassadors Internet (NASDAQ: AMIE) is up .52 to 2.85 as volume rises 957% to 2.1 million shares.  Trading volume in Semgroup Corp. (NYSE: SEMG) rises 621% to 3.4 million shares as the stock drops 4.29 to 28.18.

Stocks/Underlying – Big Daily Change in Option Volume

Charming Shoppes (NASDAQ: CHRS) receives option volume of 1,238, up more than 5,500%, while National Bank of Greece (NYSE: NBG), has 13,010 contracts traded this morning, a rise of 748%. Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) sees 23,971 options traded while stock rises 4.32 to 28.03.

Stocks – Big Daily Change in Open Interest

Three D Systems (NASDAQ: TDSC) again makes an appearance on our lists with open interest of 1,997, a rise 552%. Signet Jewelers (NYSE: SIG) seeing its open interest go to 5,833, rising 418%, and BroadSoft (NASDAQ: BSFT) OI at 5,822, a rise of 413%.


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