Notable Call Options Activity in USEC

Shares of USEC

are higher on the session by 2.99%, currently trading at $1.38. 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 calls today. The strike seeing the heaviest volume is the March 2012 $1.50 call, which has traded 1,700 times on open interest of 1,142 contracts. Calls are outpacing puts today by 45 to 1. USEC Inc., a global energy company, is a supplier of low enriched uranium for commercial nuclear power plants. The company has two segments: the low enriched uranium segment with two components, separative work units and uranium, and the contract services segment.