Trading Block: Review of the last trading day of the year. VIX barely holding on to double digits. Big meh into the end of the year. Silver is on a tear. The highs and lows of Bitcoin. Cboe announces six Bitcoin ETFs. Uncle Mike creates a new product...Fitcoin.

2017 Year-in Review: The good, the bad, and the unexplicable.

Final Options Question of the Week for 2017: What is your enduring market memory/event/trend/etc of 2017? Have a suggestion of your own? We encourage you to choose "Other" and send in your thoughts.

• Death of Volatility/VIX
• Rise of Bitcoin
• The Unstoppable Bull
• Other: Reply/DM w/ ideas
  • Comment from OptionsAlliance: The surprise resurgence of #options volume in 2017.
  • Comment from OliveWanaBroker: The oats bull market. Very important.
• Uncle Mike's silver collar was not, in fact, the second coming of AAPL.
• All smoke, no fire
• Crypto fever

Odd Block: Crazy paper from the year

• TSLA options tracker: The explosion of interest in TSLA catastrophe puts. OI exploded in 2017. Interest also expanded to Jan 2020 50 puts.
• The 250,000 contract VIX three-way, rolled thrice
• Extended Stay America - giving up the ghost
• The way-out-of-the-money gold trade with a further out-of-the-money kicker.

Strategy Block: Uncle Mike waxes poetic about his trading strategy from 2017

Around the Block: Will the outlier trends continue? Andrew brings us down with debt talk. What would it take for volatility to return to normal?