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Daily Options Trading for Plains All American Pipeline. (PAA)
Posted on 03/12/2010
 PAA options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 127 put and 1,062 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.12. There were 8.36 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 Plains All American Pipeline. closed at $56.42 in the previous trading session and opened today at $56.62.
PAA is currently trading at $56.87, up $0.45 (+0.80%) in today's trading session.
The shares of the stock are trading between $56.18 and $56.99.
Today's volume of 312,358 shares is less than the average volume of 356,367 shares.
PAA is trading above the 50 day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average.
The stock's 52 week low is $35.63 and 52 week high is $57.11.
by Sasha Gelf
Options Analytics Group
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