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Trading Alert for Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD)
Posted on 03/09/2010
 Unusual volume of call contracts was traded today. There were 3,062 call contracts traded compared to the ten day average volume of 508 contracts. On the put side, 613 put contracts exchanged hands. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.20. There were 5.00 calls traded for each put contract.
A significant increase in the trading volume of a stock's option often is a precursor of movement by the underlying stock.
In such instances, Put/Call Ratio can be used as an investor sentiment indicator, where a high ratio implies that the overall
investor sentiment is bearish and a low Put/Call ratio implies that the overall sentiment is bullish.
Shares of PXD closed at $48.54 in the previous trading session and opened today at $48.31.
Pioneer Natural Resources settled the day up $0.89 to $49.43 in the trading session.
The day's trading range is between $48.07 and $49.80 respectively. On the volume side,
1,633,379 shares were traded which is greater than the average volume of 1,617,160 shares.
PXD is trading above the 50 day moving average and higher than the 200
day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $11.88 and 52 week high is $54.03.
by Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
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