Are you an options muggle or an options wizard?

Listen to Option Block 716: Secrets That Option Muggles Don’t Know

Trading Block: Featuring special guest host Greg Stevens, VP of Product Development for Options at Fidelity.

Earnings!

  • Tuesday – Home Depot
  • Wednesday – Cisco, Macy’s
  • Thursday – Walmart, Applied Materials, JC Penney, Nordstrom
  • Friday – John Deere
  • AMAT – 54.30, ATM straddle: 2.25, approx. 4%

Odd Block: Line in the sand puts in Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA). Call love in General Electric Company (GE). Roll/stupid in Mylan NV (MYL).

Mail Block: Options question of the week.

CME Group just announced a new Ether index this week – expanding the universe of Crypto indices. But, at the end of the day, we all want more tradeable products. Which derivatives product would you like to see next in the Crypto space? Bitcoin Ether Ripple LightCoin

  • Bitcoin Options
  • Ether Futures
  • Ripple Futures
  • LightCoin Futures

Listener questions and comments:

  • Question from Litnic – What is the best “secret” options indicator that you use that isn’t widely known or followed?
  • Question from Brian P. – What’s your favorite underlying to trade options on?
  • Question from Alexi K. – How large do you think the universe of readily tradeable options is for the investing public?
  • Question from QZ98 -Do you trade options on stocks below 5? What’s the cutoff?

Around the Block: What are the all-stars keeping their eyes on?