TRADING BLOCK

Trade war premium was fleeting.

Most active indices - VIX - 238k, SPY - 1.15M, SPX - 450k

Most active equity options - AAPL, TSLA, BABA, T, AMD, S, MU, QCOM, BAC, FB

Option Pit stock of the day - NVDA

Earnings:

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

Wednesday - Target, Lowe's

Thursday - Best Buy

Friday - Foot Locker

ODD BLOCK

Puts trading in Kroger Co (KR)

Call love in Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (BZH)

Rolling calls in Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB)

STRATEGY BLOCK

Uncle Mike Tosaw discusses options strategy.

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

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