Daily Options Trading for Retail HOLDRs (RTH)
Posted on 02/25/2010
 Retail HOLDRs options saw high put activity today. A total of 1,864 put and 344 call contracts were traded raising a high Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 5.42. There were 5.42 puts traded for each call contract.
Put/Call ratio statistics can be used as an investor sentiment indicator.
A high Put/Call ratio suggests that the overall investment sentiment is bearish and that
investors expect the underlying stock to decrease in value. Conversely, a low Put/Call
ratio implies that the overall investor sentiment is bullish based on the large amount
of call options.
Retail HOLDRs (RTH) closed at $95.56 in the last trading session and opened today at $94.43. RTH is
trading at $96.28, up $0.72 (+0.75%) in today's trading session. The daily
low is $94.10 and the high is $96.28. The trading volume of 2,626,100 is above the
average volume of 1,764,500 shares. RTH is trading above the 50 day moving
average and higher than the 200 day moving average.
Retail HOLDRs has earnings per share of $0.00.
The stock's 52 week low is $60.23 and 52 week high is $96.25.
Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
sasha.gelf@marketintellisearch.com
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