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Trading Update for Atwood Oceanics (ATW)
Posted on 03/08/2010
 ATW options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 232 put and 1,604 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.14. There were 6.91 calls traded for each put contract.
Put/Call ratio is often used to measure investor sentiment,
the ratio serves as a predictor of investor behavior. A high Put/Call ratio suggests
that the investor sentiment is bearish and that investors expect the underlying stock
to decrease in value. In contrast, a low Put/Call ratio suggests that the investor
sentiment is bullish and that the underlying stock is expected to increase in value.
Unusual volume provides reliable clues that the stock is expected to make a move.
Atwood Oceanics closed at $36.20 in the last trading session and opened today at $36.36.
The stock price rose $0.61 (+1.69%) to $36.81 in today's trading session.
ATW is trading between the range of $36.36 - $36.97.
Volume is 773,792 in relation to the three month average volume of 974,051 shares.
ATW is trading above the 50 day moving average and higher
than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $13.03 and 52 week high is $40.58.
Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
sasha.gelf@marketintellisearch.com
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