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I am often asked by my option students how I filter the overwhelming amount of information which gets displayed on the option chain. This article is aimed at explaining the importance of a handful of selected variables that appear at the option chain.

Mark will be appearing on ONN around 11:15am (PST). He will also be a featured panelist for the "Managing Risk & Exploiting Opportunities With Options" session at 3:45pm (PST)

There are only a few weeks left in The Great Options Insider Iphone Giveaway…

In this episode, Mark is joined by Randy Frederick, Director of Derivatives and Trading at Charles Schwab. Mark and Randy discuss the recent overhaul to Schwab's options trading platform. Other topics include: Randy's options repair strategy for equity traders and the outlook for the options market in 2009.

Apple options & the E-mini…

Though I trade options, I have a totally different perspective on how and when to trade them. First, I am an S&P futures trader. I have been trading and following the S&P futures since they began trading in 1982. So I have learned to trade options based on the one thing I know best, the S&P 500 futures…

In this episode, Mark is joined by Robert Newhouse, CEO, Ballista Securities and Keith Landsberg, EVP – Business Development, Ballista Securities. Mark, Robert and Keith discuss the rise of third-party facilitation networks, aka dark pools, in the options market. They also discuss the impact of the financial meltdown, regulatory reform and penny pricing on Ballista's business. Finally, they respond to BOX's veiled threat to invade the crossing space and establish a competing facilitation platform.

Exclusive OIC 2009 Panel Audio: The Great ETF Migration. Panelists: Andy Nybo, TABB Group (moderator); Scott Burns, Morningstar; Jamie Farmer, Dow Jones Indexes; Sid Jain, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods; Rob Stein, Astor Financial

Exclusive OIC 2009 Panel Audio: The Tech Arms Race

In this "live" episode from OIC 2009, Mark sits down with George Ruhana, the new CEO of Optionshouse.