First, the Expected Move. The Expected Move is the amount that options traders believe a stock price will move up or down. It can serve as a quick way to see where real-money option traders are ...

Change is a constant. The rate of change is not. The global economy has undergone a monumental shift over the past two decades. Mathematician Clive Humby is credited with the phrase, "data is the new ...

The VIX index isn't the only forward implied volatility index. There are other indexes of different time frames ranging from 9 days to 1 year. They are called VIX9D, VIX3M, VIX6M, VIX1Y. Because of ...

One of the most important risk factors when trading financial assets and their derivatives is the actual and historical volatility of the underlying asset that impacts the implied volatility used to ...

As new traders flood the market, a return to the basics may help novices understand the fundamentals of options trading. Volatility, for example, refers to the propensity of a security's price to move ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

In this article I will walk you through the commonly used but wrong way to think about volatility decay. We'll then walk through an example of volatility decay with realistic numbers. Afterwards, ...

Bitcoin investors are always waiting for and excited by volatility but seldom enjoy it when a price pump is followed by a sharp correction that triggers forced liquidations in futures contracts and ...

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 ...

With the S&P 500 hovering 9% below its early January high, financial advisors are reviewing client portfolios to be sure allocations remain within corridors determined by financial plans. The Russian ...

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 ...