Monday's Options Volume Leaders (AAPL, BIDU, C, BAC, AMR)

The overall market is flirting with the flat line today; currently the S&P 500 SPX is off by 2.78 points, trading at $1,145; considering last week's high volume pop, a period of consolidation is expected and healthy. Here are your mid-day options volume leaders… 1. Apple Inc. AAPL 125,459 contracts, 68.1% calls, 31.9% puts 2. Baidu Inc. BIDU 89,529 contracts, 62.5% calls, 37.5% puts 3. Citigroup C 86,423 contracts, 88.4% calls, 11.6% puts 4. Bank of America BAC 43,880 contracts, 61.5% calls, 38.5% puts 5. AMR Corp. AMR 43,083 contracts, 92.0% calls, 8.0% puts For more great research like this, as well as how to play it through options…please visit Benzinga's Options & Volatility Edge and Benzinga's Cash Generator.