Notable Call Options Activity in E*TRADE Financial

Shares of E*TRADE Financial ETFC are higher on the session by 1.48%, currently trading at $10.19. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past eight weeks and is currently trading above the 50-day moving average. Options traders are focusing on calls today. The strike seeing the heaviest volume is the January 2013 $15.00 call, which has traded 20,400 times on open interest of 801 contracts. Calls are outpacing puts today by 51 to 1. E*TRADE Financial Corporation is a financial services company, which provides online brokerage and related products and services primarily to individual retail investors under the brand E*TRADE Financial.