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"Fast Money" Contributor
Western Digital saw heavy trading in both stock and options yesterday ahead of its earnings report after the market closes today.
Western Digital [WDC
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Options trading was active early in the August 32 calls, which saw volume double in a matter of minutes yesterday morning, according to OptionMonster's real-time tracking systems. By the end of the day more than 5,500 calls had changed hands at the strike, eight times the open interest, for prices ranging from $0.95 to $1.45.
Western's shares would need to rise between 4.7 percent and 6.2 percent at minimum for those calls to turn a profit by the time they expire on Aug. 21. Western Digital calls at all strikes outnumbered puts by more than 12 to 1 yesterday.
The data storage sector has been on an extraordinary run, with stellar performance among several names. Last Wednesday, Seagate Technology [STX
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Disclosure:
Pete Najarian owns a call spread in Western Digital.
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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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