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Duke Energy is seeing extremely unusual call activity as its shares reach multi-year lows.
More than 33,000 calls traded at the April 12.50 strike against open interest of just 784 contracts by mid-afternoon Thursday, according to OptionMonster's tracking systems. The huge turnover is more than 15 times the average daily volume.
DUK stock [DUK
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Other Key Utilities:
American Electric Power [AEP
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Constellation Energy Group [CEG
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Progress Energy [PGN
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Jon 'DRJ' Najarian is a professional investor, CNBC contributor, and cofounder of OptionMonster.com.
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