Calls Purchased on USEC Inc.

Shares of USEC Inc. USU are higher on the session by 2.51%, currently trading at $4.08. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past four months and is currently trading below the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short while ago the January 2012 $5.00 call was purchased 3,200 times, on the offer, on open interest of 5,309 contracts. Overall call volume is now running at 2.00x the daily average with 81% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. USEC Inc., a global energy company, is a supplier of low enriched uranium for commercial nuclear power plants. The company has two segments: the low enriched uranium segment with two components, separative work units and uranium, and the contract services segment.