Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE When it comes to chipmakers, traders are ordering à la carte and shorting the buffet. Put volume more than doubled that of calls Monday morning in the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH), with more than half of total premiums tied to puts. Of that, more […]
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Options traders are storming into bets against crypto’s most vocal evangelist Michael Saylor. Call it mutiny on Strategy. Flows around Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) and the company’s variable-rate preferred stock STRC are turning bearish this week after traders had been more balanced in the preceding month despite a steady decline in bitcoin that began in mid-May. […]
Hype for the biggest IPO of all-time is at a fever pitch and traders can’t wait – literally. Options volume is picking up in Nasdaq-listed Echostar, a $35-billion networking business based in Colorado that owns an estimated 3% of SpaceX stock, which it acquired through a deal providing wireless spectrum to Starlink in September. Trading […]
A flesh-eating parasite known as New World screwworm has been found in livestock in Texas, and traders are buzzing over potential winners in the stock market. Shares of Zoetis and Elanco Animal Health popped in Thursday’s trading, and typically dormant options markets on the stocks woke up with a heavy bullish bias. Zoetis was last […]
The Coinbase logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages on the background. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Coinbase on Thursday unveiled a new product that lets customers get price exposure to private companies before they go public, starting with a perpetual futures contract –better known as a […]
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on May 28, 2026. NYSE Assets in leveraged ETF nearly doubled over two months, as investors scrambled for maximum exposure to the artificial intelligence trend. “Investors increasingly use leveraged instruments linked to the ‘AI-trade’ – assets in leveraged ETFs linked to AI and Tech themes have surged, […]
Wednesday is garbage day where I live, and because of how recycling works here, we have four separate bins. One for solid waste, one for “containers” – bottles and cans, one for compost (grass clippings basically), and one for paper. These last two are the largest, but even so, somehow the one for paper is […]
A view of a Bitcoin ATM at Northgate Mall on Feb. 5, 2026, in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Bitcoin prices fell to their lowest levels since early April on Tuesday after a decline spurred by crypto treasury company Strategy selling a small amount of its bitcoin holding intensified. Traders on prediction […]