Earnings season kicks into gear this week with banks and tech stocks taking center stage. This week we have Bank of America, ...

The United States Oil Fund (USO), the ETF that best tracks oil prices, offers equity options traders a liquid, accessible ...

This stock thrives on volatility.

Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied ...

It’s a mammoth week of earnings with loads of big names due to report this week. We have Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta Platforms (META), Alphabet (GOOGL), Robinhood Markets (HOOD ...

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 ...

Earnings season picks up steam this week with 35 companies of interest due to report including some banks and big tech names. Before a company reports earnings, implied volatility is usually high ...

Volatility influences options prices because dramatic price swings amplify gains and losses. While traders can’t look at a crystal ball to see how much volatility the market will endure, implied ...

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 ...

The risk with options straddles and options strangles is limited Options straddles and options strangles are two advanced options strategies that can be used to capitalize on changes in implied ...