Palm Beach, FL 1/12/12 (StreetBeat) -- As LDK Solar (NYSE: LDK) gives up some of the ground it gained yesterday, one option trader is looking for a top in the stock.
LDK is down 7.61 percent to trade at $5.10 today but has been trending higher since testing support at $2.50 on Nov. 22. Although shares of the solar-technology company doubled over that time, they will have to gain another 200 percent to return to its 52-week high from February.
Dominating the option volume today are the January 6 calls, which were sold 10,000 times at the bid price of $0.06. The previous open interest was 9,481, so this is a new opening position.
This call selling may have been done naked or against long shares as a covered call. The former gives a higher-probability profit threshold, anywhere below $6.06. If the trade is a covered call, it would profit anywhere above $5.18.
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