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"Fast Money" Contributor
Financial insurance firm MBIA has dropped some 14 percent in the last week, and options traders are positioning for more downside in the next two months.
Monday's MBI options activity has focused on the August 5 contracts, where buyers came out in the first 15 minutes of trading this morning to buy puts for $0.60 in a single sweep across multiple exchanges, OptionMonster's tracking systems show.
By this afternoon, 4,455 puts had changed hands in a strong buying pattern at that strike, well above open interest and dwarfing the average put volume of just 85 contracts.
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The shares [MBI
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Other Financial Insurers:
Ambac Financial Group [ABK
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MGIC Investment [MTG
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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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