Options

Mike Khouw spoke on CNBC's Options Action about an options trade in PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF) (NASDAQ: QQQ) that he noticed on Wednesday. He said a trader sold 17,000 contracts of the August 109 call options for $2 to buy 34,000 contracts of the August 101/96 put spread for a...

The Australian Employment Change and Unemployment Rate numbers are scheduled for release Wednesday at 9:30 ET PM. This is a trading opportunity for right after work at 6:00 PM ET, entering an Iron Condor using Nadex AUD/USD spreads with 11:00 PM ET expirations. The strategy is setup to capture...

Canada releases the Manufacturing Sales around 45 days after an end of a month, which shows the change in manufacturing sales each month. This is important to traders due to its reflection of possible future market conditions. A change in sales can indicate changes in their spending, hiring, and...

The Capacity Utilization Rate and Industrial Production numbers will be out Tuesday at 9:15 AM ET. The two reports can cause the EUR/USD market to move, making a trade opportunity.  The Iron Condor strategy can work here by trading two Nadex EUR/USD spreads, buying one and selling another....

Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL) is expected to report its first-quarter numbers on May 20, and Susquehanna expects EPS of $1.38, a penny below the Street's view. The brokerage also noted that the retailer is the least affected by Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) within the retail sector....

Being at work all day doesn’t have to mean not trading. There are opportunities to trade news events, which are scheduled in the early morning hours. Don’t worry- it doesn’t involve losing sleep. It means using the right strategy, with the right instruments, and placing the...

Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE: VRX) were crushed Thursday morning, down more than 8 percent to a six-year low at $23.55. Even more, Valeant shares have plunged nearly 80 percent over the course of 2016. When this kind of downside rears its ugly head for investors and traders...

Thursday, May 12, 2016, at 7:00 AM ET, the Bank Of England will release the Monetary Policy Committee Official Bank Rate Votes, Monetary Policy Summary, and Official Bank Rate. The votes tell us the number of votes for increasing rates. The summary is used to communicate policy with investors and...

Production in the UK is made up of manufacturing, mining, and utilities. With 80% from the manufacturing side, it makes the news release on manufacturing production a leading indicator for economic health. Manufacturing has to respond quickly to business conditions and it can be a good read of...

The Goods Trade Balance for the UK will be released Tuesday, May 10, 2016, early in the morning at 4:30 AM ET. This makes for a trade opportunity, and one you can enter Monday, the night before, at 11:00 PM ET. The Office for National Statistics releases the Goods Trade Balance for the UK monthly...

Some traders find success when trading five-minute binary options, while others feel like the following new trader, who said, “I can’t seem to win...ever. They are nearly impossible to get filled on, and you would need to be extremely fast. There is never good enough risk to reward....

Mike Khouw spoke on CNBC's Options Action about unusually high options activity in Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN). He noticed that a trader paid $10.2 million in premium for 10,000 contracts of the August 210/230 call spread. The trader bought the call spread for $10.2 and the trade breaks even...

Leverage increases the ability of a person’s dollar to make or lose money. Leverage allows a trader to use less money to place a trade, potentially increasing either the risk or the return of investment (ROI) per dollar invested. One can do more with less. An example of not having...

Dan Nathan spoke on CNBC's Options Action about a high options activity in SPDR S&P Metals and Mining (ETF) (NYSE: XME) on Thursday. The options trading volume was three times higher than the average daily options volume and the most of the traded volume was in puts, explained Nathan....

Scott Bauer of Trading Advantage suggested on Bloomberg Markets that traders should consider a bullish options strategy in Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX). He thinks the stock is holding well at its current price level and it seems to him that it has found support. Bauer added that last...