Ford Motor (F) adds 24 cents to $11.96, now up 5.7 percent month-to-date, after reporting an 11 percent decline in August sales on Sep 1. Options action is picking up today, with 25K calls and 9,930 puts traded on the automaker, or two times the typical volume for the first hour of trading. Early trades included blocks of Sep 14 calls at 7 cents on ISE, where sentiment data hints at opening customer buy orders. 10,775 contracts now traded.