by Bob von Halle | Jun 19, 2020 | Options, Wall Street
The mainstream financial media pays little attention to the equity options market for numerous reasons (opaque nature, complexity, trade rationale etc). But per the note below from Trade Alert, LLC (www.trade-alert.com) the flow of activity has been record breaking...
by Bob von Halle | May 28, 2020 | Options, Wall Street
From the folks at Bespoke Investments: Excellent overview of how the options market is viewing things as we scale over the 200 day sma in the S&P 500. • Options markets are not taking a very optimistic tone lately. • While the huge surge in volatility that came...
by Bob von Halle | May 13, 2020 | Options, Wall Street
From the folks at Bespoke Investments: Excellent overview of how the options market is viewing things as we scale over the 200 day sma in the S&P 500. • Options markets are not taking a very optimistic tone lately. • While the huge surge in volatility that came...
by Bob von Halle | Mar 12, 2020 | Commentary, Options
It would be senseless in today’s volatile environment to write about individual option trades or flows. By the time anyone read my posts, the market and option prices are likely to have moved significantly, making the information all but worthless. What I would...
by Bob von Halle | Feb 12, 2020 | Commentary, Options
Courtesy of Goldman Sachs, the below chart shows the stunning surge in single name stock option volume as a percent of the underlying normal share volume totaling a record 91%. Since 2006 the closest second place finisher for this percentage has been in the low 60%...