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Price Alert for Allegheny Technologies Inc (ATI)
Posted on 03/08/2010

Unusual volume of call contracts was traded today. There were 14,107 call contracts traded compared to the ten day average volume of 1,849 contracts. On the put side, 674 put contracts exchanged hands. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.05. There were 20.93 calls traded for each put contract.

The following alerts were raised:
- Unusual Call Volume
- Low Put/Call Ratio
- 90 Day Record High Call Volume

Unusual volume provides reliable clues that the stock is expected to make a move. Investors can use the Put/Call ratio statistics to measure trader sentiment. 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.

Allegheny Technologies Inc (ATI) closed at $48.69 in the last trading session and opened today at $48.83. ATI is trading at $49.46, up $0.77 (+1.58%) in today's trading session. The daily low is $48.69 and the high is $49.60. The trading volume of 2,010,704 is below the average volume of 2,224,580 shares. ATI is trading above the 50 day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $16.92 and 52 week high is $53.39. The stock has a P/E ratio of 150.74 and a dividend yield of 1.48%.

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