CNBC Stock Blog
- Commercial Real Estate Best Place For Money: Strategist
- Enterprise Tech Companies to Focus On: Portfolio Manager
- This Chemical Company Will Rally into 2010: Trader
- 3 Safe Investments That Let You ‘Sleep Better:’ Strategist
- Beware of 'Trampling Effect' When Market Tops: Manager
- Gold Heading to $1150: Art Hogan
- More Upside if S&P Passes This Number: Market Pro
- Playing Activision and Other Video Game Stocks: Analyst
- Expect 'At Least' Another 10-15% Upside: Fund Manager
- Why are Options Bullish on This Smartphone Maker?
MOST SHARED
- China Signals That It May Allow Currency to Rise Against Dollar
- AIG CEO Ready to Quit over Pay Constraints: Report
- Short Sales Stall
- Gold Hits Record High Above $1,115 as Dollar Slides
- Bring on Tougher Regulation: S&P Owner
- 5% of Americans Plan to Buy a Home Next Year
- UPS Sees 2010 Volume Growth, Higher Rates
- Website Launches That Gives Free Access to Concerts
- US Recovery to be Weak, Erratic: Top Fed Officials
- Schork Oil Outlook: Nat Gas Bulls Didn’t Stand A Chance
- Enterprise Tech Companies to Focus On: Portfolio Manager
- Agassi Book Buzz Paying Off Early
- Cadillac Converj Smart Extension of Volt
- This Chemical Company Will Rally into 2010: Trader
- 3 Safe Investments That Let You ‘Sleep Better:’ Strategist
- Beware of 'Trampling Effect' When Market Tops: Manager
- Gold Heading to $1150: Art Hogan
- Starbucks Brews Up Growth
- Macy's Loss Beats Estimates, But Shares Fall on Outlook
- AIG CEO Ready to Quit over Pay Constraints: Report
- Pay Caps Make it Hard for GM to Hire Execs: Whitacre
- Tresury Report Says $209 Billion Left in TARP Funds
- Unemployment May Cause Loan Defaults in US: Zoellick
- UPS Sees 2010 Volume Growth, Higher Rates
- Sen. Dodd: Fed Should Return To 'Core Functions'
- Just 1 in 20 Plan to Buy a Home Next Year: Survey
- Website Launches That Gives Free Access to Concerts
RSS FEED
Text Size 
"Fast Money" Contributor
Put activity began heating up in Hartford Financial last week and is showing up again Thursday, as the insurance company's stock continues to slide.
Today's options activity is focused on the June 14 puts, where a whopping 25,000 contracts traded in the session's first 90 minutes alone, according to OptionMonster's tracking systems.
That dwarfs the average full-day volume of 920 puts at that strike and is more than 4.5 times open interest.
 |
] is off some 4.5 percent in midday trading to about $14. The shares are down more than 17 percent since trading over $17 just on May 20. Disclosures:
I am long puts in HIG.
___________________________
Options Trading School:
____________________________
Other Big Insurers:
American International Group (AIG) [AIG
Loading...
()
]
Berkshire Hathaway [BRK.A
Loading...
()
]
MetLife [MET
Loading...
()
]
Prudential Financial [PRU
Loading...
()
]
____________________________
___________________________
Pete Najarian is a professional investor, CNBC contributor, regular co-host of CNBC's "Fast Money" and co-founder of OptionMonster.com.
___________________________
Data is a real-time snapshot *Data is delayed at least 15 minutes