Calls Purchased on Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

Shares of Intercontinental Exchange ICE are higher on the session by 3.87%, currently trading at $122.79. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short while ago the February 2011 $125.00 call was purchased 1,000 times, on the offer, on open interest of 1,522 contracts. The Feb 2011 $130.00 call was also traded 1,000 times on open interest of 698 contracts. Overall call volume is now running at 4.02x the daily average with 73% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an operator of regulated futures exchange and over-the-counter markets and derivatives clearing houses. ICE operates electronic futures and OTC marketplaces for trading an array of energy and agricultural commodities, credit default swaps, currencies and equity index products.