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

Momenta, VIX Give Options Momentum

Options remained active as the market rallied with Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Clinical Data (NASDAQ: CLDA) spurring volume.

Options See Big Busy Bets on Citi, GE

Options markets were active on expiration Friday with Citi (NYSE: C), and General Electric (NYSE: GE) finding high contract volume.

BP, Aetna, ITT Lead Options Trading Today

Several stocks lead options trading activity, with Williams (NYSE: WMB, and BP (NYSE: BP) busy along with ITT (NYSE: ITT) and Aetna (NYSE: AET).