Volatility is often called the fear gauge of the options market. When fear rises, volatility spikes — option premiums get expensive, risks increase, and opportunities can shift in an instant. When ...

Elevated P/E ratios and low volatility signal investor complacency. Click here for more information on Market Outlook.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpiderRock Gateway Technologies (“SpiderRock”), a leading provider of analytical option data, announced today the release of “Chart Tool”, a web application for visualizing ...

Options trading is a dynamic, fast-moving investment sector where making the right moves at the right time can earn an options trader a lot of money very quickly. One of the most important keys to ...

One of the major factors that influences the price of an option is implied volatility (IV). In simplest terms, implied volatility is the anticipated movement of an underlying equity over a certain ...

Risk is not the same as volatility, but that lesson has not customarily been taught in business schools, where volatility is almost universally used as a proxy for risk. Though this pedagogic ...

As an options trader, I am always on the lookout for potential earnings plays. One stock that caught my attention is CrowdStrike, due to a significant difference in implied volatility of options for ...

As if investors didn’t already have enough to worry about, Friday’s expiry of quarterly options may provoke more volatility, potentially condemning the S&P 500 index to a fourth straight weekly loss.

I focus exclusively on precious metals, believing diversification dilutes returns; my strategy centers on mining stocks and options trades. Pan American Silver Corp. is my current options trade pick ...

Market makers selling the options may need to buy more bitcoin in the spot market to cover their positions if the cryptocurrency rises further. Updated Mar 30, 2023, 8:03 p.m. Published Mar 30, 2023, ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Investors have recently bid up the share prices of Citigroup Inc. (C) to an ...