Trading Block: Earnings!

• Monday - Dell, PaloAlto, CSMC, Orion
• Tuesday - HD Supply, Duluth Trading, Navistar
• Wednesday - Signet, Knot, SecureWorks,
• Thursday - Smuckers, Broadcom, At Home
• Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon join forces to convince CEOs to end quarterly profit forecasts

Odd Block: Size opening puts in Banco Bradesco (BBD), Size opening call sale in Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI).

Mail Block: Options question of the week

Google Trends is full of interesting, and surprising, data. When you analyze the "options" search data you uncover some surprising results. Which brings us to this week's question: Which "subregion" is currently ranked one for overall "options" interest by Google?

• Illinois
• California
• New York
• Maine

Flash Poll: Let's stick with our Volatility theme to round out the week. Quite simply - which product do you think has the highest 30-day implied Volatility? No cheating (or checking with your broker)! What does your gut tell you? VIX? Bitcoin? TSLA? RUSSELL2000? RUT? IWM?

• Tesla, TSLA
• VIX
• Bitcoin
• Russell 2000: Emini, RUT

Listener questions and comments:

• Comment from Till - I'm looking forward to the rock lobster's ongoing webinar series on Asian options.
• Question from DollClub - How do you price ratio spreads. If it's a long 1x2 do you just multiply the cost of the second leg by 2 and then subtract it from the long leg? Is it just that simple?
• Question from Division1 - Why has there never been a cool trading video game? Options or stocks I don't care. Maybe Insider should do it?

Around the Block: What's on the radar for next week?