In other words, options traders have rarely been more bearishly configured toward the shares during the past 12 months.

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More than 71, 600 of these bearishly oriented options traded on NTAP on Wednesday, compared to call volume of about 44, 500 contracts.

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In other words, short-term options speculators have been more bearishly aligned against the sector only 22% of the time during the past year.

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Prices late Tuesday sold off rapidly in the wake of bearishly construed minutes of the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

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Options traders, on the other hand, have expressed a healthy degree of pessimism toward MOS. For instance, roughly 6, 400 bearishly oriented puts traded on MOS versus 7, 327 calls.

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This ratio ranks in the 81st percentile of its annual range, suggesting that short-term speculators have been more bearishly aligned just 19% of the time during the past year.

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This ratio ranks higher than 84% of similar 52-week readings, suggesting near-term traders have been more bearishly aligned toward the stock just 16% of the time during the past year.

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