Brian Stutland

On CNBC's "Options Action", Brian Stutland spoke about recent spike in volatility. He said that VIX spiked over 45 percent in a week and he sees that as a buying opportunity. He explained that after such a move in VIX, the average return in the S&P 500 was 2.5 percent in 4 weeks...

Brian Stutland of Equity Armour Investments spoke on CNBC's Futures Now about gold. He compared gold to cooper and concluded that gold is underperforming over the last couple of months. He thinks it could catch up a little bit and reach 1,300. Stutland would rather buy copper than gold because...

Brian Stutland spoke on CNBC's "Options Action" about a bullish options activity in Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO). He said that traders were selling puts and buying calls on a day when the stock spiked around 20 percent. Around 750 contracts of the September 42 puts were sold...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland spoke about unusually high bullish options activity in Health Care SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLV) on Monday. He noticed that the call options volume was 11 times higher than the put options volume and he is wondering if this could be the beginning of the...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland said that he is considering buying Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM). He thinks that there could be some more weakness in the name and he wants to sell puts to get lower entry. He believes that the last week's rally in crude oil is a good sign...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland spoke about energy names that could be slashing their dividends. He explained that the options market is predicting that ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), BP plc (ADR) (NYSE: BP) and Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) are going to cut their...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland spoke about trading activity in Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) on Tuesday. He said that the stock was pretty weak, but call options outnumber puts 1.5 to 1. There was also a big trade that caught Stutland's attention. A trader bought 10,000...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland spoke about trading action in VIX on Monday. He said that there were only 69 trading days when the VIX traded above 50 and those days were in 2008 and 2009. The VIX traded above 50 in the early session and then it pulled back. Stutland sees that as a...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland spoke about a bullish trade that he noticed in volatility index on Tuesday. A trader bought 20,000 contracts of the August 18 / 20 call spread for $0.08 on a day when VIX recorded more than 12 percent single day gain. The trade breaks even at 18.08...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland shared his bullish options trade for Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) ahead of earnings next week. He thinks that the company is going to post good earnings results because it has a great movie line-up. It is also in a good position to benefit from cheap oil...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland spoke about options activity in VIX. Options volume was 1.5 times higher than the average daily options volume. A lot of traders were betting recently that the market is going to sell off and after it fell 2.5 percent they are taking profits. Stutland...

On CNBC's Options Action, Brian Stutland spoke about a correlation between the VIX and the S&P 500. He explained that in the last two years the VIX has traded 20 times above 20. Trades who bought the S&P 500 when that happened had a return of 8.8 percent over the next three months and 13.2...

Brian Stutland spoke on CNBC's Options Action about unusually high options activity in VIX options. He said that put options volume was three times higher than the call options volume and over 230,000 contracts of the February 14 puts were purchased. Stutland believes that the ECB's stimulus will...

Brian Stutland spoke on CNBC's Futures Now about the reasons behind the move higher in gold. He thinks that traders are buying gold because of the weakness in the euro. Potential money printing by ECB is putting some upward pressure on gold, said Stutland. He suggested a bullish futures trade....

Carter Worth spoke on CNBC's Options Action about current chart patterns in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (NYSE: EEM). He started by comparing the performance of the S&P 500 and EEM in the last five years and showed that the spread between them has dramatically increased because the...