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Shares of Frontier Oil have been range-bound for months, but options are looking for the stock to break higher by this fall.
Average daily volume of Frontier Oil [FTO
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Almost all of the calls went for $0.35 and $0.40 on the offer, representing a cheap shot for a recovery in this oil refiner. Also on Friday, Frontier's board declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.06 per share of common stock.
Frontier Oil ended last week at $13.40 after rising slightly Friday and inched up another nickel in after-hours trading. For the calls purchased Friday to turn a profit, the stock would need to rise at least 15 percent to $15.35 by the time the options expire in October.
With the exception of a short-lived spike past $18 at the beginning of June, the stock has been stuck between $12 to $16 all year long and has seen resistance around $14 for the last three months. Those levels are roughly double the 52-week lows of last November but are still well short of the $23 highs of a year ago.
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Frontier Oil Competes With:
Suncor Energy [SU
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Valero Energy [VLO
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Jon 'DRJ' Najarian is a professional investor, CNBC contributor, and cofounder of OptionMonster.com.
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