Notable Put Options Activity on NYSE Euronext

Shares of NYSE Euronext

are lower on the session by 1.49%, trading at $25.82. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three weeks and is currently trading below the 50-day moving average. Options traders are focusing on puts today. The strike seeing the heaviest action is the March 2012 $24.00 put, which has traded 5,000 times on open interest of 5,086 contracts. Put volume is outpacing call volume by 16 to 1. NYSE Euronext is a global operator of financial markets and provider of trading technologies.