Nasdaq Options

The traded volume of listed options has been soaring lately. Averaging about 3 million contracts a day in 2001, daily options volumes have grown 10X over the past 20 years to over 30 million/day  recently.

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in eBay Inc. (Symbol: EBAY), where a total volume of 31,924 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Okta Inc (Symbol: OKTA), where a total of 11,124 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.1 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 46.5% of

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Lamar Advertising Co (Symbol: LAMR), where a total of 3,179 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 317,900 underlying shares. That amounts to about 4

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Maxar Technologies Inc (Symbol: MAXR), where a total volume of 6,556 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of appr

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Wayfair Inc (Symbol: W), where a total of 14,743 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.5 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 61.5% of

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Accenture plc (Symbol: ACN), where a total of 16,247 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.6 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 70.3%

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Vista Outdoor Inc (Symbol: VSTO), where a total of 8,739 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 873,900 underlying shares. That amounts to about 87.5%

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Translate Bio Inc (Symbol: TBIO), where a total volume of 7,649 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approxima

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Intersect ENT, Inc. (Symbol: XENT), where a total of 5,685 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 568,500 underlying shares. That amounts to about 242

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in FedEx Corp (Symbol: FDX), where a total volume of 33,778 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 3.4

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Mastercard Inc (Symbol: MA), where a total volume of 27,361 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Apple Inc (Symbol: AAPL), where a total of 804,941 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 80.5 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 66% of

Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in United Rentals Inc (Symbol: URI), where a total volume of 3,908 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximat

Investors in Ameren Corp (Symbol: AEE) saw new options become available today, for the May 21st expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the AEE options chain for the new May 21st contracts and identified one put and one call contrac

Investors in United Rentals Inc (Symbol: URI) saw new options begin trading today, for the May 21st expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the URI options chain for the new May 21st contracts and identified one put and one call con

Investors in Annaly Capital Management Inc (Symbol: NLY) saw new options begin trading today, for the June 18th expiration. One of the key data points that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 92 days until expiration the newly trad

Investors in Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc (Symbol: ARE) saw new options become available today, for the May 21st expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the ARE options chain for the new May 21st contracts and identified one

Investors in Quanta Services, Inc. (Symbol: PWR) saw new options become available today, for the November 19th expiration. One of the key inputs that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 246 days until expiration the newly available

Investors in Ralph Lauren Corp (Symbol: RL) saw new options become available today, for the May 21st expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the RL options chain for the new May 21st contracts and identified one put and one call con