Calls Purchased on Alliance Holdings GP (AHGP)

Shares of Alliance Holdings GP AHGP are lower on the session by 0.19%, currently trading at $51.73. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past four months and is currently consolidating between the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short while ago the April 2011 $55.00 call was purchased 2,000 times, on the offer, for $0.10 on open interest of 2,094 contracts. Overall call volume is now running at 13.37x the daily average with 100% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. Alliance Holdings GP, L.P. owns, directly and indirectly, 100% of the members' interest in Alliance Resource Management GP, LLC, the managing general partner of Alliance Resource Partners, L.P.