Meme trading is swallowing Wall Street’s options market whole. On Wednesday, nearly 40% of total options volume came from a small cluster of stocks with no real business momentum, just heavy internet ...

Forget the GameStop frenzy four years ago—2025 was the year of the retail trader, with individual investors flexing their ...

There's something off about the recent explosion in meme stocks like GameStop, one market pro writes. Deep out-of-the-money call options saw an explosion in trading volume just before the return of ...

The crypto boom in the final months of 2017 woke up millions of people to the idea that you could get rich from your phone. In December alone, three million people downloaded the app for Coinbase, the ...

Retail options volume is surging. One startup wants to make it fun. Another wants to make it comprehensible. Both are betting ...

Meme coin traders gave BI a peek into the psychology that goes into investing in ultra-risky crypto. They push back on the reputation meme coin investors have for being reckless and impulsive. Three ...

Traders are piling into deep out-of-the-money call options for GameStop ahead of its earnings. The trading activity suggests investor appetite for meme stocks could once again be perking up. The $20 ...

A trader bought two million dogecoin DOGE $0.2016 call options at a strike price of $0.22 on Wednesday, according to Bernd Sischka, chief commercial officer at derivatives exchange PowerTrade. DOGE is ...

If the past is prelude, in 2025 many individual investors will trade options heavily. In doing so, some will win big and others will lose big, with the average options trader likely losing some money.