A historically high percentage of stock option trades are betting on higher prices. Whatever “wall of worry” that has served as a tailwind for stock…
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This Sentiment Reading Is Not Like The Others
Options data from the International Securities Exchange does not corroborate the frothy readings seen in most other sentiment measures. We’ve mentioned several times in several…
Options Traders (Over?) Trim Their Hedges
After displaying extreme caution just a month ago, equity options traders have trimmed back their hedges – perhaps too aggressively. Over the past few months,…
Options Traders Continue Their Unusual Hedging
While the stock market saw big gains yesterday, one options exchange reported a near-record level of relative put buying. One of the recent themes that…
Options Traders Head For The Hills
Call buying of stock options has been extremely subdued relative to puts recently – typically a bullish contrarian signal; however… We are not the first…
Unprecedented Level Of Equity Options Hedging For A Rally
Equity options trading was extremely skewed toward puts yesterday, very unusual for a market that rallied strongly on the day, and over the past few…
Equity Options Traders Head For The Hills
The ISE Equity Call/Put Ratio has been under 100 for a record 3 consecutive days. As we have mentioned frequently, the task of weighing positive…
Equity Options Traders Head For The Hills Again
Due to its unique construction, the International Securities Exchange Equity Call/Put Ratio (ISEE) has become a favorite indicator of ours for highlighting short-term inflection points in…
Stock Options Traders Head For The Hills We’ve talked about the International Securities Exchange Equity (ISEE) Call/Put Ratio several times during the past year. Due…
Stock Option Bulls Go Streaking
One method of analyzing stock market sentiment is by measuring activity in the options market. The benefit of this type of analysis is that, contrary…