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Delayed prices for 50 widely followed stocks and exchange-traded funds.

An options newsletter with a pulse

Options are weird.
Let's make them interesting.

Big Tick Energy pulls apart strange market moves, old blow-ups, and whatever else sends us down a data rabbit hole, then rebuilds them with clear explanations and beautiful visuals.

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01 / RECENT WORK

Worth a closer look.

02 / THE WORK

One week it's skew. The next it's 2011.

We follow interesting questions wherever the data leads: how an options structure behaves, what a wild week actually looked like, or whether a piece of market folklore survives contact with a spreadsheet.

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03 / WHY NOW

The market got bigger.
The clock got shorter.

More options are trading, across more corners of the market, on increasingly compressed timelines. We help make sense of what changed and why it matters.

U.S. listed options / June

Half a billion more contracts in one month.

+45.0%

Contracts cleared. Source: OCC, 2 July 2026.

Zero days to expiry / YTD through Q2

Same-day options moved faster still.

20M+

Average daily volume, up 46.2% YTD. Source: Cboe, 21 July 2026.