Notable Put Options Activity in NRG Energy

Shares of NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG) are lower on the session by 1.58%, currently trading at $16.16. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three months 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 January 2013 $15.00 put, which has traded 1,700 times on open interest of 1,275 contracts.

Put volume is outpacing call volume by 7 to 1.

NRG Energy, Inc. is a wholesale power generation company. In June 2010, NRG acquired a pipeline of solar development projects from US Solar Ventures, which is an affiliate of Arclight Capital Partners, LLC.

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