Author: Marco Hickey

As of today the top ten most active option contracts traded were:Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLF) November 15 Put OptionsFinancial Select Sector SPDR November 16 Call OptionsPfizer (NYSE:PFE) December 19 Call...

Do you feel that you’ve missed out on a stock that has moved up greatly in this market? With earnings season upon us once again, it makes for a great time to be selling put options due to high implied volatility. In this...

It has been announced that the option symbols will change soon. From what I understand the exact date is February 12, 2010. First, I believe this change will eventually lead to a more liquid market as the symbols will be easier...

I am a little late to post the most active contracts as of Friday October 16, 2009 but here they are:S&P 500 SPDR (NYSE:SPY) October 109 Call OptionsS&P 500 SPDR October 109 Put OptionsiShares Russell 2000 Index...

In a previous OptionMaestro.com post, I outlined 25 stocks which I wouldn’t mind going long at these levels. I wrote about getting long the stocks by using the buy-write option strategy. This is an updated post to that...

As of today the top ten stock options traded were:Vale S.A. (NYSE:VALE) January 15 Call OptionsVale S.A. October 23 Call OptionsVale S.A. October 22 Call OptionsCitigroup (NYSE:C) October 5 Call OptionsVale S.A. October 25 Call...

Today the Dow crossed 10,000 as I assumed it had a very good chance of doing so in yesterday’s afternoon blog post. The top ten most active stock option contracts traded today were:Citigroup (NYSE:C) October 5 Call...

With the October options expiration approaching us in just 3 days, I thought I would outline some trade ideas on stocks I wouldn’t mind going long on, that would return good percentages by Friday (as of market close...

The top ten most active stock options traded today were:Citigroup (NYSE:C) October 5 Call OptionsPowerShares QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQQ) October 43 Put OptionsIntel (NASDAQ:INTC) October 21 Call OptionsTeekay Corp. (NYSE:TK) January 2010...

As of today Monday October 12, 2009 the top ten most active option contracts were:Financial Select Sector (NYSE:XLF) November 16 Call OptionsCitigroup (NYSE:C) October 5 Call OptionsCitigroup November 5 Call OptionsPowerShares...