Today’s options expiry is significantly higher than those witnessed last week, given it is the last Friday of the month and the year. More precisely, today’s expiring options are for the month and for ...

Bitcoin BTC $93,020.54 has spent virtually all of December locked between $85,000 and $90,000, while U.S. equities rallied and gold hit all-time highs. That's left bitcoin investors frustrated, and ...

It's easier than ever to trade options. Are you interested in trading options but want to learn more? All Star Charts' chief options strategist Sean McLaughlin joins Yahoo Finance Markets and Data ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years.

BlackRock is rolling out two new exchange-traded funds that use option strategies, a hot area of the ETF market in the U.S. The new funds will use a covered-call strategy on U.S. equities, with the ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A down-and-out option is a barrier option that becomes void if the asset's price ...

Since the CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX) is a statistic that tracks investors' volatility expectations for the S&P 500 Index (SPX), it can't be traded directly. While there might not be VIX shares ...

The table below is a calendar list view of unusual options activity which shows contracts which are trading at abnormal volume levels or price levels. Traders typically use unusual options activity ...

Binary options trading offers a high-risk, high-reward way to speculate on short-term price movements. Unlike traditional options, binary options settle with a fixed payout either the trade ends “in ...

Chris Davis is a Managing Editor on the Investing team. As a writer, he covered the stock market, investing strategies and investment accounts, and as a spokesperson, he appeared on NBC Bay Area and ...

This excerpt from Tom Gentile was originally published in "The Alpha 9 Trader Bible," a product of Money Map Press. If you've traded options before, you've probably heard someone mention the "Greeks." ...

Nasdaq provides call and put options information of stocks. Financial analysts and individual investors can rely on the chain to gauge the stock's performance, monitor its activity, and see prices ...