James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated ...

View post: Popular women’s fashion chain closes stores, no bankruptcy Here’s a way to play earnings by comparing the historic average earnings move of a stock to the current implied move. We’ll use ...

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 ...

Trading options can be a complicated process as a lot of options strategies are available and traders need to evaluate all of the possible routes ahead of executing a trade. As such, Schaeffer's are ...

Morgan Stanley's stock accelerated to the upside after the opening bell, enough that buyers of the option strategy known as a straddle can make money. A straddle is a pure volatility play that ...

A stock-options strategy known as a "straddle" on Tesla Inc.'s stock is priced Wednesday for a one-day, post-earnings move of $66.56, according to data provided by Option Research & Technology ...

This past week's stock market rally was not surprising. That's because a specific type of option trade known as a “Straddle” is currently profitable. When Long Straddle* trading is profitable in a ...

One of the common beliefs in the option industry is that over a long period of time option sellers will profit. They will hit some speed bumps along the way, but option prices are expected to ...

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 ...

About a month ago, I wrote about the extremely low historical volatility reading for the S&P 500 Index (SPX). Low volatility on the index does not necessarily mean a lack of opportunities for option ...