Option Volume Midday Movers April 1

High Options Volume by Strike Spiders everywhere! Volume led by Financial
Select SPDR (NYSE: XLF ) with the XLF Apr11 17 call garnering 102,490 traded
contracts and a last sale of .09. Following that is a couple of strikes in
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (NYSE: EEM ). The EEM Apr11 44 Put has
87,913 contracts with a last of .04, and the EEM Apr11 42 Put traded 87,775 with
a last of .02. Hmmmm. Also in the top 5 are two SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY )
strikes. The SPY Apr Weekly1 133 Put has traded 84,515 contracts, last .08,
while the SPY Apr11 130 Put has garnered 75,747 contracts with a last sale of
.48. Stocks/Underlying – High Option Volume Major option volume again in SPY
with the underlying up .99 to 133.58 as option trading reaches 1.01 million.
Also in the top five is XLF, up .17 to 16.56 and option volume of 181,287. The
S&P 500 Index Options (CBOE: SPX ) sees option volume of 276,121 as SPX rises
10.09 to 1,335.92. Other indices doing big business are the iShares Russell 2000
(NYSE: IWM ) with 323,734 options trading, and the PowerShares Nasdaq 100
(NASDAQ: QQQ ) up .36 to 57.75 with 261,251 options trading. The CBOE Volatility
Index (CBOE: VIX ) saw 170,852 traded. Find more option analysis and trading
ideas at Options Trading Strategies . Major Stock Trading Volume Movers Stocks
seeing the largest jumps in trading volume include Colony Financial (NYSE: CLNY
), down .37 to 18.46 and more than 6 million shares, a rise of 1,444%. Golub
Capital (NASDAQ: GBDC ) down .03 to 15.75 and 1.2 million shares trading, a rise
of 1,124%. SRA International (NYSE: SRX ) seeing rising action from traders. It
is up 2.72 to 31.08 on 12.3 million shares, a rise of 840%. Stocks/Underlying
– Big Daily Change in Option Volume RailAmerica (NYSE: RA ) riding hard with
option volume of 1,003 a rise of 3,117%. RA is down .04 to 17. Aon Corp. (NYSE:
AON ) seeing option volume rise 1,100% to 3956 contracts. Optimer
Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OPTR ) option volume hits 13,290, rising 484% as stock
moves up 1.37 to 13.20. Linear Tech (NASDAQ: LLTC ) has 12,551 options trade, up
453% as stock barely moves higher to 33.64. Stocks – Big Daily Change in
Option Open Interest 3D Systems (NASDAQ: TDSC ) sees option open interest rise
420% to 2,045 as stock rises 4.60 to 53.13. BroadSoft (NASDAQ: BSFT ) continues
its growth this week with OI moving to 6,089, up 339% with stock rising .38 to
48.00. Triangle Petroleum (NYSE: TPLM ) OI rises 316% to 2,250, and Neoprobe
(AMEX: NEO ) OI jumps to 30,616, up 276%.