Call options are all about stocks going up. For a call buyer, at the time of expiration, the price of the underlying asset needs to be ABOVE the strike, by at least what you paid for the option, for ...

Mixed options sentiment in CleanSpark (CLSK), with shares down 44c near $11.89. Options volume running well above average with 98k contracts ...

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Mixed options sentiment in Oracle (ORCL), with shares up $1.95, or 0.8%, near $244.78. Options volume relatively light with 47k contracts traded ...

At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the S options chain for the new September 2026 contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.

Whales with a lot of money to spend have taken a noticeably bullish stance on Palo Alto Networks. If we consider the specifics of each trade, it is accurate to state that 48% of the investors opened ...

As the chart below from Vanda Research shows, noninstitutional investors had just started to spend more money on put options than call options just before the S&P 500 SPX and other U.S. equity ...

Besides, the dollar value of the total number of calls open at press time was over $16 billion – nearly twice more than $8.35 billion in put options. BTC: Notional open interest in call options ...

Put options are usually bought by smaller investors to bet that the price of an asset, in this case the S&P 500, will fall. Buyers of calls expect the asset price to rise.