You asked, we listened — Unusual Options Activity (Bulk Order) is now live on Tiger! 1. What is a Bulk Order? It's when someone places an unusually large options trade — big volume, big dollar amount — signaling that a major player is making a serious bet on a stock. These big moves tend to be most telling right before key events: earnings reports, company meetings, or clinical trial results for biotech stocks. When the stakes are high, the smart money often shows its hand early. 2. How to Analyze and Use It? Scanning the options flow that day, three large CALL options (bullish bets) stood out: - All three were out-of-the-money - All three were close to expiration - Transaction volume was significantly higher than usual With META's earnings report dropping after market close, the picture w

1. Novice Tutorial Function Description It happens to new options traders all the time: they called the direction correctly, the stock moved exactly as expected, and yet their option position came back negative. The culprit? Picking the wrong strike price. That's exactly the lesson our new Options Beginner Tutorial is designed to teach. Let's say it's May 12th, and you're bullish on Tesla. You think TSLA will climb from $432 to $447 by June 1st — that's a solid +3.5% move. You open the tutorial, look at the June 1st call options, and here's what you find: Strike price 425 option gives you +2.49% return while others are negative return. Even with the stock moving exactly as you predicted, most strike prices still lose money. Only the $425 strike brings profit. This is the options pricing re

Whether you're picking your first options trade or fine-tuning a strategy, understanding a few key metrics can be the difference between guessing and actually knowing what the market is telling you. Here's a plain breakdown. 1. How to Analyze 30-Day Implied Volatility (IV) refers to the expected volatility of the underlying asset in the next 30 days, calculated based on option prices. It reflects the market's expectation of uncertainty; high IV means higher option premiums and is often used to assess event risks (e.g., earnings releases). Investors can use IV to determine if an option is overvalued or undervalued. Second, the IV Percentile compares the current IV with historical IV over the past year or longer and calculates its ranking percentage. For example, an IV Percentile of 0.8% mea