The "Greeks" are an essential toolkit for options investors and traders. These mathematical calculations, each named after a letter from the Greek alphabet, tell you how options contracts will react ...

The best mantra is 'Buy cheap, sell expensive' After a slow churn higher for stocks in 2017, volatility has re-emerged with a vengeance in 2018. What’s more, we’re currently at the heart of earnings ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched ...

After a slow churn higher for stocks in 2017, volatility has re-emerged with a vengeance in 2018. What's more, we're currently at the heart of earnings season, with major players like Apple ( AAPL) ...

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SpiderRock Gateway Technologies (“SpiderRock”), a leading provider of analytical option data, announced today the release of “Chart Tool”, a web application for visualizing ...

Volatility is an asset class that trades under different regimes. During very calm periods with more economic certainty and stability, volatility trades at very low levels. When corporate earnings ...

WeWork India has launched its IPO. Will the flotation be able to ride the growth wave in the flexible workspace industry? Options give us liberty to trade our bullish and bearish views at a premium ...

Traders looking to execute multiple options trades at one time are about to get a new applet to help them do so – and quicker. Chicago-based agency broker Wolverine Execution announced the launch of ...

Elvis Picardo is a regular contributor to Investopedia and has 25+ years of experience as a portfolio manager with diverse capital markets experience. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is ...

Stochastic volatility models have revolutionised the field of option pricing by allowing the volatility of an asset to vary randomly over time rather than remain constant. These models have ...