10 Hottest Stocks for Options Traders

AAPL tops the list for traders and market makers

By InvestorPlace Staff | Feb 6, 2013, 9:14 am EDT

According to the Options Clearing Commission, the stocks below were the top equity options traded (by volume) yesterday on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (excluding index ETFs and other derivatives like SPY and VIX trades):

Individual Investors

31,018 Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) call contracts
30,783 Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) call contracts
20,177 Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) call contracts
17,082 BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) call contracts
32,337 Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) call contracts

Market Makers

37,975 Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) call contracts
21,924 Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) call contracts
16,418 BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) call contracts
16,024 Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) call contracts
9,280 JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) put contracts

Did you trade any of these names yesterday? Give us your take in the comments.

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