For options traders, volatility often matters just as much as price direction. The problem? Tracking metrics like IV Rank, IV ...

Volatility is often called the fear gauge of the options market. When fear rises, volatility spikes — option premiums get expensive, risks increase, and opportunities can shift in an instant. When ...

Implied volatility is a powerful but often misunderstood metric that plays a major role in options trading. Implied volatility doesn’t tell you what’s going to happen to an option’s price, but it ...

Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied volatility suggest that investors in the underlying stocks are expecting a big ...

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 ...

Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, Vol. 55, No. 13, Special Issue: Symposium: Chinese Derivatives Markets (2019), pp. 2997-3022 (26 pages) We extract the short-, medium-, and long-term factors from the ...

Options traders tracking implied volatility shifts know that macroeconomic releases drive market expectations well before the numbers hit. March 7th stands out as a key event-driven expiration, with ...

With the S&P 500 Index (SPX) hitting new all-time highs recently, the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX ) has dropped to its lowest level since mid-February. This isn't unexpected, as the VIX tends to move ...