Today's large institutional Wall Street firms have large amounts of resources to digest public information quicker than the general public. Since they are aware of this timely information, they act upon it. But buying hundreds of thousands of shares would leave a big footprint on stock prices. So, options allow these institutions the opportunity to make "Big Bets" without disrupting the market. The analysis of unusual options activity puts you on the trading floors of these "smart money" institutions as they play out their strategies.

Join Barchart's John Rowland as he explains how to interpret Barchart's "Unusual Options Activity" page. He will help you understand when, why, and how these large institutions make these "Big Bets". But more importantly, he will show how you can use this information to set in motion your own strategic trades and potentially profit from these insiders' unusual options activity information. Subject to be discussed include the "Unusual Options Activity" page, bull and bear spread strategies, and chart analysis.

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