This paper documents that riskier firms with higher idiosyncratic volatility grant more stock options to nonexecutive employees. Standard models in the literature cannot easily explain this pattern; a ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. The plot of at-the-money Put and Call prices versus expiration dates roughly describes a horizontal parabolic ...

Option spreads can be a tremendous tool for generating high-probability income in your investment account. While the trade setups may take a little more thought and planning to implement, a spread ...

Delta is a measure related to options that traders can use to predict option price movements based on the change in the underlying asset. It can also be used to assess the probability that a given ...

The great thing about options is their versatility. Traders who learn how to trade options can create strategies that meet their particular criteria for risk, reward and probability of success with a ...

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I recently discussed the ability to use implied volatility to calculate the probability of a successful outcome for any given option trade. To review briefly, the essential concepts a trader must ...

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