BookingAlpha subscribers got to experience "Pinning" or "Pin Risk" during Friday's weekly Options Expiration. Pinning occurs when underlyings are drawn like magnets to a particular strike price, ...

In part two of my series on options pinning and maximum pain theory, with a focus on Apple (AAPL), I interview University of Illinois Professor of Finance and Harry A. Brandt Distinguished Professor ...

I have been often asked what is "option pinning" or "pinning the stock". In the video below I go over two examples of two stocks that "pinned" the option strike with the most open interest on options ...

Apple is one of those stocks that attract fervent opinions and concern for manipulation. Option market makers catch some of the blame, but better understanding the dynamics can allay some of those ...

I personally don’t believe in the “max. pain” theory of pinning, seeing it as an illusion instead. Here’s why: Except for a very few traders who are using ITM options as a means of entering or exiting ...