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Options Update for Comcast Corporation (CMCSK)
Posted on 03/16/2010
 CMCSK options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 58 put and 2,445 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.02. There were 42.16 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 Comcast Corporation closed at $16.67 in the previous trading session and opened today at $16.84.
CMCSK is currently trading at $16.68, up $0.01 (+0.06%) in today's trading session.
The shares of the stock are trading between $16.58 and $16.90.
Today's volume of 4,479,123 shares is less than the average volume of 7,269,700 shares.
CMCSK is trading above the 50 day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average.
The stock's 52 week low is $11.76 and 52 week high is $17.04.
by Leo Goldman
Options Analytics Group
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