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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 ...

In options trading, a "strangle" refers to an options position that consists of both a call and a put option on the same underlying stock, with the contracts having identical expirations but differing ...

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 ...

Palo Alto stock currently trades with a low implied volatility rank, which means it’s a good time to look at a long strangle.

The strangle is an options strategy that you create out of multiple options contracts to maximize your upside while minimizing your risk. With the strangle, you generally believe you know which ...

On the other hand, a short strangle involves simultaneously selling out-of-the-money calls and puts on the same stock with the same expiration. By doing so, you're betting on the exact opposite result ...

This study examines the performance of two strangle strategies at different legs to find the best strategy for consistent profit generation when trading on the Indian stock market index Nifty. These ...

The short strangle is a two-legged option spread meant to capitalize on a period of stagnant price action for the underlying stock. The strategy involves the sale of two out-of-the-money options -- ...

Many are looking at this market, with the S&P 500 (SPX) trading up at the 1520 level, and saying it seems to be completely overbought. However, others have spent their time looking at the numbers and ...