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Option Market Pricing Only 1% Move Ahead of Midterms

Traders who bet on market swings expect the S&P 500 to move about 1% the day after the midterms. That is the same move they expect from the Fed meeting a week earlier. The betting markets help explain why.

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SK Hynix Options Start Trading Tuesday. Here Is the Playbook.

SK Hynix just completed the largest US listing ever by a foreign company, and with SKHY options expected to start trading Tuesday, July 14, traders get almost immediate access to calls, puts, and spreads on the dominant AI memory supplier.

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Discover the latest trends shaping global trading and investment opportunities.

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Nvidia Options Are Pricing a $300 Billion Earnings Swing. Here's What The Data Shows.

Wall Street expects revenue to nearly double. The options market expects a 5.7% move, calls are running three to one over puts, and protection is quieter than a normal Tuesday.
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CRWV, NBIS, AMAT, CSCO: What Options Are Pricing Into a CPI Week

Four AI infrastructure names report around Wednesday's inflation print, all of them expiring into the same Friday weekly. Here is what each board is charging.
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A Quiet VIX And The Wildest Options Week Of The Summer

Palantir went up 29% when options priced an 11% move. SpaceX faced its first earnings report and a $100 billion share unlock in the same 72 hours. The VIX closed the week near 15. Here is everything that happened.
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SpaceX Earnings: What Experts and Options Expect

SPCX posts its first results as a public company after Tuesday's close, two days before roughly 911.5 million locked-up shares come free. The August 7 expiration carries 234.37% implied volatility, and a single strike accounts for two thirds of its call open interest.
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Apple Reports Thursday: What the Options Market Is Pricing

The options market prices a move of about ±$13, or 3.7%, through Apple's report Thursday night. Implied volatility sits in the 64th percentile of its year, the board leans toward calls in both open interest and volume, and the curve behind the event is nearly flat.
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AMC Options Are Trading at Six Times Their Normal Pace

The stock is up 20% as of Monday afternoon, still down 99% from the meme era, and the options board is running six times its normal pace with calls four to one over puts. Here is the data, and where the opportunity may sit.
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SKHY Options: The Biggest Trades Leaned Bearish

SKHY options arrived with explosive volatility, surprising bearish positioning, and a market pricing in massive moves. See what the data reveals and how traders are responding.
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0DTE Options Just Set Records Across the Board

Cboe's June volume report set records in nearly every category it tracks, and the fastest-growing corner of the market is the contract that expires the same day it trades.
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SPCX Options Are Pricing Moves Nearly Double NVDA's

SpaceX options are pricing far bigger moves than NVDA, nearly double a month out, and the gap reveals what the market really expects from the newly public stock.
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