Option writing is a fairly successful trade. Simple reason - Option writers take a lot of risk. There is an unknown risk profile against a small potential profit of premium received. The success is ...

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 ...

WeWork India has launched its IPO. Will the flotation be able to ride the growth wave in the flexible workspace industry? Options give us liberty to trade our bullish and bearish views at a premium ...

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 ...

When trading stocks or stock options, there are certain indicators you may use to track price momentum. Implied volatility, which measures how likely a security’s price is to change, can be useful for ...

If you’re like most options traders, you already understand the implied volatility of an option is a measure of how much the markets expect the underlying to move over the life of the option. You also ...

In financial markets, we all understand volatility as something very unstable and very bad. In the case of equities, stocks that have volatile earnings tend to get low P/E valuations in the market.

One of the most important risk factors when trading financial assets and their derivatives is the actual and historical volatility of the underlying asset that impacts the implied volatility used to ...

A volatility crush is the term used to describe the result of implied volatility exploding once the market opens higher or lower than where it closed the previous day. For new investors, implied ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...