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Options Bullish on This Home-Entertainment Stock
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Dish Network saw a surge in call buying late Friday, as investors positioned for the satellite-television stock to keep climbing in the New Year.
OptionMonster's real-time systems detected the purchase of 15,900 March 23 calls for $1 in the final minutes of trading. Open interest in the strike stood at just 13 contracts before the transaction appeared.
DISH stock [DISH
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The shares need to climb about 15 percent by expiration for the calls to turn a profit.
Overall options volume in DISH was 12 times greater than average on Friday. Calls outnumbered puts by 42 to 1.
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Dish Network Competes With:
DirecTV [DTV
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Comcast [CMCSA
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Cablevision Systems [CVC
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Time Warner Cable [TWX
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