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ABOUT US NEWS AND ANALYSIS TRADING SERVICES OPTIONS EDUCATION BROKER CENTER 30 FREE TRADES. Seadrill Ltd SDRL is on the short-sale restricted list after delaying restructuring plans. Stocks quoted in this article: Shares of Seadrill Ltd NYSE: SDRL are trading down Against this backdrop, speculators are flooding SDRL's options pits, and with 54, contracts on the tape, volume is trading at four times the average intraday rate.

In a change of pace, calls are edging out puts, with 27, of the former and 26, of the latter exchanged so far. Two of the most active contracts are SDRL's January 2- and 3.

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While the expectation of "vanilla" call buyers would be for SDRL to rally back above the strikes over the next 12 months, it's likely some of the activity at these out-of-the-money strikes is a result of short sellers hedging against any upside risk.

In fact, the withstanding trend in SDRL's options pits has been toward puts. Among all SDRL options, more than , puts are currently outstanding, compared to , calls.

Narrowing the scope to focus on the front three-months' series of options just highlights this put-bias. In other words, short-term options traders have rarely been as put-heavy toward the stock as they are now.

In the past two weeks, traders at the International Securities Exchange ISE , Chicago Board Options Exchange CBOE , and NASDAQ OMX PHLX PHLX have bought to open 3. What's more, this ratio ranks just 7 percentage points from a week peak, indicating puts have been bought to open over calls at a near-annual-high clip. Today, although calls have a rare lead over puts, short-term traders are purchasing new positions at SDRL's March 2 put -- bracing for additional losses for the energy stock over the next several weeks.

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