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Mining company Yamana Gold is down Tuesday along with the price of gold itself, but is still seeing some heavy call trading.
AUY's recent rise has been swift along with the Market Vectors Gold Miners (GDX) [GDX
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Even though gold and related equitives have pulled back since then, traders are active in the AUY March 8 calls, buying more than 10,000 contracts in just the first 30 minutes of today's session, according to OptionMonster's tracking systems.
Yamana stock [AUY
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Disclosures:
I own GDX and GDX short calls.
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More Gold Players:
SPDR Gold Shares ETF [GLD
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Barrick Gold [ABX
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Newmont Mining [NEM
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Pete Najarian is a professional investor, CNBC contributor, regular co-host of CNBC's "Fast Money" and co-founder of OptionMonster.com.
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