NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) -- CENX options saw interesting call activity today. A total of 178 put and 1,196 call contracts were traded raising a low Put/Call volume alert. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.15. There were 6.72 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.
Century Aluminum (CENX) closed at $13.88 in the last trading session and opened today at $13.80. CENX is trading at $13.96, up $0.08 (+0.58%) in today's trading session. The daily low is $13.58 and the high is $14.07. The trading volume of 1,406,455 is below the average volume of 2,690,560 shares. CENX is trading above the 50 day moving average and higher than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week low is $8.15 and 52 week high is $18.77.