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VOLATILITY RULES
We would like to welcome a new contributor to the CBOE Option Hub. Henry Schwartz. Henry Schwartz is the president of Trade Alert LLC, a provider of real-time options analysis tools to leading Wall...
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Facebook Earnings Preview
Facebook (FB) will report quarterly earnings after the close today and a great deal of media attention is focused on the event, with bulls pointing to mobile monetization and ‘key growth initiatives’...
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Happy Twitter Day!
Seven year old Twitter finally has its long awaited IPO today- offering 70million shares for $26 each under the ticker TWTR on the New York Stock Exchange, which will value the firm at nearly...
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Tis the Season, Earnings Season
Henry Schwartz for CBOE Options Hub A quarter of the 3537 stocks with listed options release their fourth quarter earnings reports this month. Alcoa (AA) is typically considered the stock to kick off...
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Apple Options Recap – Record volume into iPhone 6 launch
Apple options have dominated the US single stocks landscape for several years now, with current average daily volume near a million contracts and AAPL option trades making up nearly 12% of the total US...
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Dividend Play in Apple Marks the End of the Golden Goose
Apple options have led single stocks for several years now, with recent average daily volume near one million contracts and 9.5million contracts of open interest – a full 7.4% of single-stock total OI....
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VIX Options Open Interest Spikes
(Editors Note: Fred Ruffy from Trade Alert, LLC contributed to this article with Henry Schwartz) VIX April 20 calls were the most active option contract market-wide on Thursday with well over 150K...
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Earnings Take Center Stage
In my experience option traders fall into one of two distinct camps: single stocks and index/ETFs. Despite similar contract specifications and pricing models, the mindset required to trade each...
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CBOE VIX Options Volume Surges
CBOE VIX® option volume for March is averaging well over 700K contracts as realized volatility for the index stabilizes near 95% and traders marvel at the 50% retracement in the index from the 30...
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