Frederic Ruffy

Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com

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

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 15, 2011

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

Star Scientific Options Up, Cameco Down

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 14, 2011

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

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 11, 2011

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

Sprint, SPYs, Starbucks Lead Options Action

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 10, 2011

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

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 9, 2011

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

Qualcomm, Human Genome See Busy Options

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 8, 2011

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI) active in options trading today, along with Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR).

VIX Up, Western Digital Rises, ARMH Down

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 7, 2011

The market sell off has the CBOE Volatility Index (CBOE: VIX) jumping 10% and put options selling briskly.

Option Bulls Like TIVO, Bears Bite Sachs

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 4, 2011

Options trading moderate as call buyers liked TIVO (NASDAQ: TIVO) while bears slammed Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and Central European Distribution (NASDAQ: CEDC).

Citi Busy, Chiquita Slips in Options Trading

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 3, 2011

Options trading average but Citigroup (NYSE: C) sees bulls take charge. Chiquita Brands (NYSE: CQB) stock slips and falls while options rise.

Spyders, Silver Miners Spark Option Trading

By Frederic Ruffy, Options Strategist, Whatstrading.com Mar 2, 2011

Options trading was light but traders bought calls on Endeavour Silver Corp. (AMEX: EXK), and implemented an S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) trade.