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Options Update for Alliant Techsystems (ATK)
Posted on 03/11/2010
 ATK options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 414 put and 3,469 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.12. There were 8.38 calls traded for each put contract.
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.
Shares of Alliant Techsystems slipped $0.99 (-1.20%) to $81.49.
The stock closed at $82.48 in the last trading session and today the shares of ATK opened at $82.02.
So far today, the stock has hit a low of $80.79 and high of $82.18. The current trading volume of 531,624
is greater than average volume of 393,064 shares.
ATK is trading below the 50 day moving average and lower than the 200 day moving average.
The stock's 52 week low is $60.76 and 52 week high is $91.39.
by Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
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