Discover what a "Pig" in investing means, how greed affects strategies, and view examples of behavior that can lead to ...

There are a variety of pre-trade and derivatives trading tools that help examine market sentiment and formulate options strategies. This analysis explores such tools using the September 2024 Hong Kong ...

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 ...

It is doubtful that any level of sophistication in the use of financial instruments will ever create a new paradigm of permanently lower volatility. Complicated derivatives and securitizations are ...

Bitcoin has exhibited strong performance in the past decade, but its long-term uptrend has been accompanied by immense volatility and large drawdowns along the way. Bitcoin’s volatility remains ...

The stock market was "volatile" in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was "volatile" again, to a lesser degree, ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Maybe you've heard about the ...

In Know Your Options, I tend to mention Implied Volatility quite often. I’m sure most readers already understand the general idea that options with high IVs are expensive and options with low IVs are ...