According to the Options Clearing Commission, the stocks below were the top equity options traded (by volume) last Friday on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (excluding index ETFs and other derivatives like SPY and VIX trades):
Individual Investors
- 40,888 Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) call contracts
- 28,171 Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) call contracts
- 21,722 J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) call contracts
- 19,128 Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) call contracts
- 18,891 American International Group (NYSE:AIG) put contracts
Market Makers
- 36,010 Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) put contracts
- 21,597 Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) call contracts
- 18,618 Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) call contracts
- 8,810 Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) call contracts
- 7,991 Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) call contracts
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