What Is The Options Automatic Exercise Value Of A Capped Option?

The rules of the options markets generally limit the maximum number of options on the same side of the market (i.e., calls held plus puts written, or puts held plus calls written) with respect to a single underlying interest that may be carried in the accounts of a single investor or group of investors acting…

This is also known as a Crossed Trade and it is basically a transaction/trade that is done from one broker to another ( broker to broker) rather than in the open market place. See Also Option Conversion

How To Find The Options Chain Just pull up the stock chart and click on the “Trade” tab in the upper left corner. If you are on a mobile device then you can click here to see how to open the Thinkorswim Option Chain on a mobile device. The Option Chain Explained After you open…

The best way for me to explain what you are seeing in a typical UOA trade is to show you an example of a typical trade and then break it down for you.  The first thing you will probably notice in the image above is that one of the trades says “SWEEP DETECTED” and the…

The Thinkorswim platform can be a bit intimidating and hard to navigate especially if the only other platform you have known is something like Robinhood or one of those plain vanilla tools.  But Thinkorswim is like a Swiss army knife of trading and is really a powerful platform once you learn your way around it.  In…

Are Call Sweeps Bullish? The short answer is not always. I have been tracking and trading Unusual Options Activity for many years and I have seen both Bullish & Bearish sweeps on the Call side. What this means is that you can have a sweep order to sell Calls which is essentially taking a bearish…