STEC Inc (STEC) $10.08 -0.98%
Large blocks of open interest in the STEC Feb 10 calls and puts suggest the stock may be worth watching as a ‘pin’ candidate into the close today. 9300 calls and 7900 Puts are open, for a notional size of about 1.6million shares, more than double the 736K shr avg daily volume in the underlying. Flow hist shows the calls were opened over a few days in Jan and early Feb on some chatter (try STEC, then 1 and then + for older content).
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