Bulls Want to Fly With Textron

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Airplane and helicopter maker Textron popped yesterday, and option traders are betting that it will keep gaining altitude.

OptionMonster's tracking programs detected the purchase of about 5,800 January 26 calls in volume that was far above the previous open interest of 663 contracts, indicating that this is fresh buying. Premiums started at $0.24 and rose along with the stock price, fetching $0.28 near the close of the session.

Calls lock in the price where investors can buy shares and can generate significant leverage relative to the underlying equity. But if the stock doesn't move by expiration in about two weeks those contracts will lose all their value.


Textron shares rose 2.78 percent to $25.48 yesterday. The stock has been grinding sideways for the last two years and remains well below its levels before the market crashed in 2008.

Overall option volume in the name was 15 times greater than average in the session, with calls accounting for a bullish 80 percent of the total.

—By CNBC Contributor David Russell

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David Russell is a reporter and writer for OptionMonster. Russell has no positions in TXT.

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