Your intraday options trading update.
High Options Volume by Strike
Top strike is Citigroup (NYSE: C) otherwise it’s just about all SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) this morning. The Citi strike is C Apr 11 4.5 Call with 108,203 contracts traded, up .01 and a last of .15. The SPDRs are the SPY Apr 11 133 Put with 84,550 traded, last is .97, followed by a SPY AprWeekly2 132 Put with 59,602 volume and SPY AprWk2 133 Put with 51,715 volume. Rounding out top 5 is the SPY Apr11 134 Call, last at .77, and 50,767 contracts traded.
Major Stock Trading Volume Movers
Century Casinos (NASDAQ: CNTY) receives stock volume of 831,175, a rise of more than 1,000% as the stock moves up .49 to 3.49. China Aoxing Pharmaceuticals (AMEX: AXN) sees 474,210 shares traded as stock rises .40 to 2.565. Intervest Bancshares (NASDAQ: IBCA) unchanged at 2.50 while stock volume rises 726% to 655,600 shares.
Stocks/Underlying – Big Daily Change in Option Volume
Wet Seal (NASDAQ: WTSLA) sees option volume rise to 2,129 contracts as stock moves up .22 to 4.60. ImmunoGen (NASDAQ: IMGN) stock jumps 2.11 to 11.41 as options trading rises to 4,134 contracts. Newell Rubbermaid (NYSE: NWL) falls to 19.05 and options trading rises to 2,459. Knight Capital Group (NYSE: KCG) stock is up to 13.73 and options traded is at 1,054.
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Stocks – Big Daily Change in Open Interest
Big move here is Inspire Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ISPH) with open interest now at 73,690 contracts, a rise of 451%. Stock unch at 4.96. Another with some action include First Majestic Silver (NYSE: AG) with OI at 16,172 as stock drops .40 to 24.98. Top percentage change is Accuride Corp. (NYSE: ACW) seeing OI rise 716% to 1,655.
Stocks/Underlying – High Option Volume
SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) drops .12 to 133.54 and option volume reaches 917,579 contracts. The S&P 500 Index Options (CBOE: SPX) lags behind with 279,361 contracts traded. Citigroup (NYSE: C) sees option volume of 255,345 as stock rises to 4.62 and the PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) gets 192,548 contracts traded.
There were 136,468 options traded on the CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE: VIX) as it drops .13 to 16.77.
