Andrew Page points out why these markets haven't stopped savvy investors from achieving a healthy return.

We all have views about "�what might have been,' but whether or not you have been on board, perhaps there may be some tiny consensus: is there room for one last flutter?

Options expiration Friday off to a bearish start as dollar continues its ascent.

A less confident and crowded position has bulls blaming the dollar and the semis for a less-than-thankful Thursday.

Stocks tumble for second straight day, led by chip stocks.

A three day hold of 1100 turn into "moovement" towards profit-taking on a crowded trade and no one left to pass the euro to.

Options trading was brisk on Sears Holdings (SHLD: sentiment, chart, options) on Thursday, as more than 51,000 contracts crossed the tape...( Read More )

MasterCard Inc. (MA: sentiment, chart, options) was the center of some heavy options trading on Thursday, as more than 46,800 contracts changed hands...( Read More )

Minneapolis, MN"� MGEX (Exchange) announced November 18 electronic futures and options trading volume of 7,865 contracts, marking the ninth-best electronic trading day in Exchange history and the third top ten electronic trading day and fifth top 20 electronic trading day during November.

Deere & Company (DE: sentiment, chart, options) was the focus of some heavy options trading yesterday, as more than 66,800 contracts changed hands...( Read More )

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Nobel Drilling’s (NE) stock options volume is significantly up today and its stock price is down about 6%. Noble Drilling is in the business of providing drilling services for the oil and gas industry. Noble has over 60 offshore drilling rigs including semi-submersibles, drillships, jackups and submersibles. Noble’s competitors include: Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO), Nabors Industries [...]

Journalists have long been required to disclose relationships with any sponsors, as well as any endorsements or compensation they receive for their articles and reviews. The same has not been true for bloggers, until now. When the new FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising come into effect on December 1, 2009, [...]

EMC Corporation’s (EMC) call option volume spiked yesterday and its stock price was unchanged. If you’re looking for products to store and manage your data, then EMC may have just what you need. EMC offers information storage systems, networked attached storage systems, content addressed storage and direct attached storage systems. EMC also markets software [...]

Sun Microsystems (JAVA) stock options volume went into orbit yesterday and its stock price was up about 4%. Sun Microsystems once-upon-a-time proclaimed itself as the “dot in dot-com,” but fell from grace with the dot-com implosion. Sun is in the business of providing software, servers, storage, networking and desktop systems. The company is known for developing [...]

We’ve received a lot of questions, interest and comments regarding the article on short squeezes, “Short Squeeze and Stock Options”, so we’re going to follow that up with another article on short squeezes. If you had followed the covered call investing position for Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK) selected in the previous short squeeze article, [...]

Coinstar’s (CSTR) call option volume was significantly up on Friday and its stock price was down almost 9%. If you’re looking to rent a DVD or get rid of all of your pocket change, then Coinstar is the company for you. Coinstar provides DVD rental kiosks and self-service coin counting machines. Coinstar’s primary competitors are Blockbuster [...]

MEMC Electronic Materials (WFR) stock options went haywire yesterday and its stock price was up about 2%. MEMC is based in St. Peters Missouri and is in the business of silicon wafers. It’s wafers are used for all sorts of semiconductor devices, microprocessors, memory and solar cells. MEMC’s competitors include Shin-Etsu Handotai (private), Siltronic (private), and [...]

Barrick Gold (ABX), Anglogold Ashanti (AU) and Harmony Gold Mining (HMY) stock option volumes are sky high today. Barrick Gold is Canadian based company primarily involved in searching for and producing gold. Barrick is also involved in copper, silver, platinum, nickel, oil and gas. AngloGold Ashanti is a South African based company primarily involved in mining [...]

CommVault Systems (CVLT) call option volume was significantly high on Friday, while its stock price was down about 2%. If you’re concerned about you’re company’s computer system crashing and want to make sure all of your important data is safe, then CommVault’s products may be just what you are looking for. CommVault Systems provides data [...]

Weatherford International’s stock options volume jumped off of the chart yesterday. Call option and put option volume was inordinately high for Weatherford. There didn’t appear to be any significantly related news for Weatherford yesterday. They announced that their next earnings report is scheduled for January 26, 2010, but such a far off [...]