Earnings season is in full swing, with Wall Street awaiting reports from several Big Tech names this week. While fast approaching, there's still time to speculate on volatility using options. One way ...

Easily one of the standout performers this year, big-data analytics specialist Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has gained almost 400% of market value since the beginning of January. However, it can also ...

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 ...

Options straddles and options strangles are two advanced options strategies that can be used to capitalize on changes in implied volatility (IV) and stock price volatility. Options straddles and ...

Options contracts allow investors the right to purchase, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an asset at a set price before the option expires. These kinds of contracts are often used as a hedge ...

AppleAAPL is currently trading with very low implied volatility, which means options on the stock are cheap compared with the last 12 months. So it's a good time to look at a breakout trade such as a ...

A strangle is not as violent as it sounds, nor as deadly. It simply is a variation on the straddle, and it presents some interesting possibilities in terms of profit potential and risk. When two ...

Yesterday's options trading was interesting for several reasons. However, it didn’t seem to carry over to the unusual options activity. For example, the options volume of 65.09 million was 24% higher ...