Microsoft Corp. plans to stop awarding its employees stock options, ending a program that, in its heyday, made many of them millionaires and reverberated throughout the regional economy.

Mixed options sentiment in Microsoft (MSFT), with shares down $1.44 near $490.62. Options volume relatively light with 189k ...

Option prices have been keeping their move to fair values leaving less mispricing opportunities. Overall, the options market is getting back to normal: puts are overpriced (mostly OTM), calls are ...

Whales with a lot of money to spend have taken a noticeably bearish stance on Microsoft. Looking at options history for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) we detected 111 trades. If we consider the specifics ...

We gleaned this information from our observations today when Benzinga's options scanner highlighted 35 extraordinary options activities for Microsoft. This level of activity is out of the ordinary.

Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 36 uncommon options trades for Microsoft. This isn't normal. The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 41% bullish and 33%, bearish.

Accordingly, this week, we discuss why traders in the options market look for relative mispricing, not for absolute mispricing. Relative mispricing.