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Daily Options Trading for EXCO Resources (XCO)
Posted on 02/25/2010

XCO options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 234 put and 1,752 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.13. There were 7.49 calls traded for each put contract.

Options can be used as predictors of stock behavior. Investors can use Put/Call ratios as technical indicators to read for signs of institutional sentiment. The Put/Call ratios offer insight to investors and can be used as either a direct or contrarian indicator for trading decisions. Unusual volume provides reliable clues that the stock is expected to make a move.

EXCO Resources (XCO) closed at $19.28 in the last trading session and opened today at $18.78. XCO is trading at $19.20, down $0.08 (-0.41%) in today's trading session. The daily low is $18.40 and the high is $19.23. The trading volume of 2,386,875 is above the average volume of 2,314,900 shares. XCO is trading below the 50 day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average. EXCO Resources has earnings per share of $-8.99. The stock's 52 week low is $7.70 and 52 week high is $22.52.

Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
sasha.gelf@marketintellisearch.com