Improve your trading decisions by learning how to measure option liquidity effectively using daily volume and open interest metrics.

Volume is what drives the entire market, and that is a fact that often gets lost in the sea of indicators, patterns, and trend lines that dominate today's concept of analysis. However, most investors ...

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Open interest and volume are two closely related topics in the world of options trading, so it makes sense to discuss them as a unified subject. Volume is already a familiar concept to stock traders, ...

The U.S. stock market is amazingly overvalued long term, with the Total Equity Market Cap to GDP ratio sitting at a record 215%. Put/call ratios indicate extreme bullishness (fully invested portfolios ...

When it comes to measuring investor and market sentiment toward a stock or group of stocks, retail investors typically look to buying and selling activity. As revealing as this might be, it does come ...

The table below is a calendar list view of unusual options activity which shows contracts which are trading at abnormal volume levels or price levels. Traders typically use unusual options activity ...

There is a lot of uncertainty around this year's potential new tariffs in the basic materials sector, particularly in the steel industry. With uncertainty comes a lot of shaky price action, better ...

On any given day, ETF trading volume is usually some of the heaviest in the world. Increased volume in the underlying ETF can directly lead to an increase in the corresponding option volume. The ...