Notable Put Options Activity in Assured Guaranty

Shares of Assured Guaranty (NYSE: AGO) are lower on the session by 0.28%, currently trading at $14.24. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past two months and is currently trading above the 50-day moving average.

Options traders are focusing on puts today. The strike seeing the heaviest action is the January 2012 $14.00 put, which has traded 2,600 times on open interest of 3,035 contracts. The Jan2012 $12.50 put and Feb2012 $14.00 put are also active.

Put volume is outpacing call volume by 7 to 1.

Assured Guaranty Ltd. is a Bermuda-based holding company that provides, through its subsidiaries, credit protection products to the United States and international public finance, infrastructure and structured finance markets.