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Daily Commentary for S&P 500 Companies S&P 500 Options Alerts
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Options Activity for Salix Pharmaceuticals, (SLXP)
Posted on 03/11/2010
 SLXP options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 505 put and 7,283 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.07. There were 14.42 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 Salix Pharmaceuticals, slipped $0.61 (-1.94%) to $30.88.
The stock closed at $31.49 in the last trading session and today the shares of SLXP opened at $31.27.
So far today, the stock has hit a low of $30.33 and high of $31.41. The current trading volume of 2,037,219
is greater than average volume of 1,263,570 shares.
SLXP is trading above the 50 day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average.
The stock's 52 week low is $6.83 and 52 week high is $32.03.
by Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
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