Frederic Ruffy

Frederic Ruffy

Frederic Ruffy is the Senior Options Strategist at Whatstrading.com, a site dedicated to helping traders make sense of the complex and fragmented nature of listed options trading. In addition to writing market commentary and trading-related books and articles, Fred has also worked as an instructor, educating investors on advanced topics like measuring volatility, the benefits of sector rotation and the risks and potential profits from trading around earnings. An active trader himself, with over 15 years securities industry experience, his market observations and analysis of the options market are featured regularly in the financial press including Barron’s, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Futures Magazine.

Recent Articles

GM, Ford Options Resilient as Market Wobbles

Options markets very busy, sending the CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE: VIX) over 25 in intraday trading.

Star Scientific Options Up, Cameco Down

Options trading mild but Star Scientific (NASDAQ: CIGX) continues rally, while uranium stocks like Cameco Corp. (NYSE: CCJ) reel after the Japanese disaster.

Star Scientific Smoking in Option Action

Options trading volume in Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), and Star Scientific (NASDAQ: CIGX) options.

Sprint, SPYs, Starbucks Lead Options Action

Your daily options trading wrap up. Sentiment Stocks are broadly lower late-Thursday. Economic data was in focus early after the Labor Department reported the jobless…

Cisco, Coinstar Top Option Volume

Options trading mild but bears haunt Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) while Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR) rallied. Star Scientific (NASDAQ: CIGX) was active.