> What do you think the heavy buying of index options (I assume > you're including QQQ's? and SPY's?) by the "big money" means? i second that question. :-P earlier in the week, on an a.m. when the p/c ratio spiked to ~1.5 (or maybe 1.44), a big chunk of that was two large blocks of qqq 24 jun or jul puts.