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 ...

Do you believe a stock is set to move sharply in the next few days, weeks or months? You don’t have to guess the direction if you initiate a strangle or a straddle. These options trading strategies ...

In options trading, a "strangle" refers to an options position that consists of both a call and a put option on the same underlying stock, with the contracts having identical expirations but differing ...

The strangle is an options strategy that you create out of multiple options contracts to maximize your upside while minimizing your risk. With the strangle, you generally believe you know which ...

Among the 25 most unusually active ETF put options on Wednesday, five were the iShares Russell 2000 ETF. Three had Vol/OI ...

Uber currently trades at low implied volatility, which means options are cheap. Now is a good time for a long strangle trade.

Many are looking at this market, with the S&P 500 (SPX) trading up at the 1520 level, and saying it seems to be completely overbought. However, others have spent their time looking at the numbers and ...

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is currently showing above average volatility with an IV Percentile of 80% and an IV Rank of 43.04%. The stock has been trading between 200 and 270 for the last few weeks.

A strangle option strategy involves the simultaneous purchase or sale of call and put options in the same stock, at different strike prices but with the same expiration date. A long strangle is ...