Companies seeing a skew towards puts in the previous session: J. Crew Group, Inc. (JCG), Procter & Gamble (PG), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC), Moody's Corp. (MCO), QUALCOMM Incorporated (QCOM), National City Corp (NCC), Xerox Corp. (XRX), Google Inc (GOOG), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN), General Motors (GM), Dell Inc (DELL), MetLife (MET), Gymboree (GYMB), Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR), Union Pacific (UNP), Nokia Corp. (NOK), Adobe Systems Incorporated (ADBE), Starbucks Corp (SBUX), Tiffany & Co. (TIF), Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (GNK), CIGNA Corp. (CI), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Boeing (BA), Applied Materials (AMAT), Time Warner (TWX).

Companies seeing a skew towards calls in the previous session: MBIA Inc (MBI), Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT), Mylan Laboratories (MYL), Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), General Electric (GE), Genentech Inc (DNA), Micron Technology Inc (MU), Microsoft (MSFT), Halliburton (HAL), Goldcorp Incorporated (GG), Amylin Pharmaceuticals (AMLN), Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER), Visa Inc. (V), Dendreon Corp (DNDN), Pfizer (PFE), Chesapeake Energy (CHK), SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), Wachovia (WB), Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX), United States Steel Corp (X), Barrick Gold (ABX), AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS), Intel Corp. (INTC), SanDisk Corp. (SNDK), American International Group (AIG).

This filtered scan is based on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) buy-to-open data. It looks for stocks where the previous day's put volume on the ISE is at least twice as great as the call volume. It then sorts the stocks based on the put volume. Since this is buy-to-open data, this can be a good source for finding stocks where skepticism is emerging. Of particular interest to me would be situations where we see put activity on stocks that are still in intermediate-term uptrends. This would be a potentially encouraging sign from the contrarian perspective.

This filtered scan is based on the International Securities Exchange (ISE) buy-to-open data. It looks for stocks where the previous day's call volume on the ISE is at least twice as great as the put volume. It then sorts the stocks based on the call volume. Since this is buy-to-open data, this can be a good source for finding stocks where optimism is emerging. Of particular interest to me would be situations where we see call activity on stocks that are still in intermediate-term downtrends. This would be a potentially cautionary sign from the contrarian perspective