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The options volumes on commodity ETFs are crazy busy Wednesday.
The GLD [GLD
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] exchange traded fund, which is designed to reflect the price of gold bullion, is seeing some 90,000 contracts change hands against average daily turnover of 53,000. The USO [USO
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In addition, the mining sector has seen 344,000 contracts change hands by midday, already nearing the 351,000 daily average for the last 20 days. Options volume in Silver Wheaton [SLW
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So far today other stocks that are showing heavy activitiy on OptionMonster's proprietary tracking systems include Barrick Gold [ABX
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], which is 145 percent of normal full-session activity, and Goldcorp [GG
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], which 125 percent of normal full-session action.
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Jon 'DRJ' Najarian is a professional investor, CNBC contributor, and cofounder of OptionMonster.
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