Option Block 808: TSLA Deathwatch Drives Mystery Puts

TRADING BLOCK

Lots of Tesla put love this week.

Most active indices - VIX: 211k, SPY: 1.75M, SPX: 672k

Most active equity options - TSLA, AAPL, BABA, GE, BAC, HAL, AMD, QCOM, AMZN, FB

Earning:

Tuesday - Home Depot, JCPenney, Kohl's, Nordstrom

Wednesday - Target, Lowe's

Thursday - Best Buy

Friday - Foot Locker

ODD BLOCK

Call love in Golar LNG Limited (GLNG)

Call love in Danbury Resources Inc (DNR)

Long-term puts in Washington Prime Group Inc (WPG)

MAIL BLOCK

#QOTW: In honor of #GameOfThronesFinale we'll have a special edition of our #options #QuestionOfTheWeek. If you could have bought calls on one character to win the #IronThrone - who would it have been? Quite simply - who did you want to end up on the #IronThrone

- Tyrion Lannister

- Jon Snow

- Daenerys Targaryen

- Arya Stark

Question from a Fidelity Customer - Can I trade options to play an interest rate cut/hike? Question from Grey - You want to sell those $AAPL $150 puts now?

AROUND THE BLOCK

Pinterest has first earnings today after bell since going public - $PINS

2 big reports after the bell today $NVDA & $AMAT