A strangle is a popular options strategy that involves holding both a call and a put on the same underlying asset. It yields ...

Earnings season is here, ladies and gentlemen, and with it comes heightened volatility for many stocks as investors anticipate, and react to, quarterly reports. What can savvy traders do to capitalize ...

After we enter a short strangle, we go into position management mode. When movements in share value remain moderate we don't have a directional exposure to the underlying. We just capture time value ...

When traders first start using options, they often employ them either as a way to take a directional view on an asset (buying a call if they expect it to rise or a put if they expect it to fall) or as ...

Earnings season may seem like a scary time to trade stocks given the heightened chance of a volatile post-earnings move. Options can often provide speculative players the ability to invest in the ...

Now right between its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, Amazon stock could be a good candidate for a short strangle trade.

Updated Price for Dutch TTF Natural Gas Calendar Month Futures (NYMEX: ITTX23). Charting, Price Performance, News & Related ...

Among the 25 most unusually active ETF put options on Wednesday, five were the iShares Russell 2000 ETF. Three had Vol/OI ratios over 10. Of the three, one should be very appealing if you’re into ...

IV crush explained in simple terms. Understand how implied volatility drops affect options pricing and how to calculate the ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Michael is a former senior editor of investing and trading products for ...

If you’re diving into options trading, you’ll likely come across two common terms: sell to open and sell to close. While they may sound similar, these two strategies serve very different purposes — ...

(Micro)Strategy has significant potential as a platform for premium-selling strategies, but we still feel as though MSTY is a suboptimal option for those seeking income and growth. A manual covered ...