This rising negativity toward RVBD among options traders amid the stock's rally has bullish implications from a contrarian perspective.

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Despite the stock's strong price action, options traders are quite bearish toward RVBD.

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What's more, RVBD has bested the SPX by nearly 49% on a relative-strength basis during the past 60 trading days.

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One stock highlighted is Riverbed Technology ( RVBD), which makes products to consolidate IT infrastructure, minimize bandwidth and speed up data access and backup.

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Taking a closer look at RVBD's technical backdrop, we find that the shares are consolidating just shy of all-time high territory, with support at their 10-day and 20-day moving averages rising into the area.

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For a more dramatic example, consider the following: An investment in Riverbed Technology (RVBD), a developer of software to accelerate application performance and data transmission speeds on WANs, would have generated a 6x return, versus an investment in Clearwire (CLWR), a provider of portable high-speed wireless broadband services, which would have generated a 0.3x return.

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