Option Block 559: Options Buyout Frenzy

Trading Block: Vol begins to head north again after a big selloff in VIX on Friday. The debates are coming! Merkel has no love for Deutsche Bank. Golf loses a king, Arnold Palmer. What can investors learn from his endorsements? Are you seeing Trump in the rearview mirror? CBOE agrees to buy market operator Bats for $3.2 Billion. With a B. Interesting turn into exchange consolidation rather than fragmentation. Odd Block: Puts trade in EWG, calls trade in TCK and calls trade in DVAX. Mail Block: Listener questions and comments Question from @investor17 - Can you please highlight if PG puts were sold or bought? And give perspective on what these high Oct puts strikes 120 mean? (The information in question came from the Hot Options Report for 9.23.16.) Around the Block: Have you checked out the OptionsHouse blog? OPEC meeting coming up, and they invited Russia. Deutsche Bank aftermath? The Fed.