Calls Purchased on OptionsXpress (OXPS)

Shares of OptionsXpress OXPS are higher on the session by 0.92%, currently trading at $16.47. The stock has been drifting lower over the past two months, but has managed to regain the 50-day and 200-day moving averages in today’s trade. Options traders are bidding up calls today. The September $20 call was purchased, on the offer, 1,100 times; open interest on the strike is only 356 contracts, signaling new, bullish activity. The December $15 call was also purchased 500 times, for $2.10, on open interest of 399 contracts. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. operates through two segments: brokerage services and education services. The brokerage services segment provides Internet-based options, stock, bond, mutual fund and futures brokerage services to retail customers located throughout the United States and certain other countries.