Few Facts About Implied Volatility

At their core, options involve buying and selling the rights to transact in a specific asset. When you buy a call option on AAPL, you're paying for the right to buy AAPL at a special price before a particular date. But all options expire, and at expiration, the two parties of the contract need to settle up with each other. This process is called settlement.

By Pat Crawley, Yesterday at 02:56 PM

Weekly options used to be a niche product only reserved for gamblers and last-minute hedgers. However, weekly options are now listed on most major stocks and account for a significant portion of overall options trading.

By Pat Crawley, Sunday at 03:04 AM

The journey of an options trader's development typically has several stops along the way. The first is generally related to using options to leverage their directional bets using outright calls, puts, or vertical spreads. Somewhere along the way, a novice options trader begins to understand volatility's importance to the options market.

By Pat Crawley, January 31

Gamma is one of the primary Options Greeks, which measure an option's sensitivity to specific factors that could affect an option price. Despite traders hyping up several different Greeks and second-order Greeks like "Vanna" and "charm," there are only four primary Greeks that you need to be familiar with to understand options trading.

By Pat Crawley, January 27

Investing is one of the most important activities you can do for yourself. In today's world, it's becoming increasingly important for individuals to take control of their financial future and ensure that their investments are working in their favor. So if you're looking to take your investment strategy up a notch, there are seven essential steps you should take.

By Kim, January 20

2022 marks our 11th year as a public trading service. We closed 147winners out of 215 trades (68.4% winning ratio). Our model portfolio produced 90.5% compounded gain on the whole account based on 10% allocation per trade. We had only one losing month in 2022. 

By Kim, January 5

The Steady PutWrite service consists of two separate strategies available to subscribers known as Steady PutWrite and ETF BuyWrite. Steady PutWrite sells monthly at the money puts on equity indices targeting total notional exposure of 125% and then invests collateral in bond ETF’s.

By Jesse, January 5

Theoretically, anyone can trade options. After all, there are listed options that you can buy for as cheap as $1.00. So what is the right amount of money you need before you can officially dip your toe in the water and give yourself a fair shot at becoming a profitable options trader

By Pat Crawley, December 3, 2022

Ask a handful of traders what they deem a “small account” to be and you’ll get probably get a few different answers. For the sake of this article, we classify a small account as having less than $5,000. There’s a number of obstacles you run into trading a small account, like the options in certain underlyings being too expensive for you to trade, as one example.

By Pat Crawley, November 29, 2022

Options Trading can be very exciting and rewarding. But you should not be trading options before learning at least some basic facts about options. Options are very different from stocks.  This article presents 7 basic options trading facts that every options trader should know. Don't start trading of you don't understand them.

By Pat Crawley, November 23, 2022