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Interesting Options Volume for Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM)
Posted on 03/11/2010
 AEM options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 1,506 put and 10,341 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.15. There were 6.87 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.
Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM) closed at $58.12 in the last trading session and opened today at $57.88. AEM is
trading at $59.29, up $1.17 (+2.01%) in today's trading session. The daily
low is $57.34 and the high is $59.45. The trading volume of 2,587,574 is below the
average volume of 3,203,990 shares. AEM is trading above the 50 day moving
average and higher than the 200 day moving average.
The stock's 52 week low is $42.65 and 52 week high is $74.00. The stock has a P/E ratio of 106.45 and a dividend yield of 0.62%.
by Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
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