We’ll also provide some tips on how to pick the right strategy for your trading goals and risk tolerance. So whether you’re looking to make a…
Here’s our guide to this phenomenon and its uses in options trading… Implied Volatility Skewness Background Implied volatility (IV) describes the market’s expected volatility…
Why to prevent drawdowns? Here are some of the key reasons: Preserving Capital: When a portfolio experiences a drawdown, the value of the portfolio…
For the option buyer, the opposite is true. By owning an option, the trader has the potential to score a big profit—if the underlying…
For example: You see a credit spread with a market of $1.00 bid and $1.60 ask. There is little chance of selling the spread…
There are benefits to delta-neutral trading. One of the primary benefits is that it can help you minimize your risk. By hedging your portfolio…
A winning ratio is simply a number of winning trades divided by the total number of trades. For example, a trader who won 15…
This is the list of my favorite Options Trading books: The Rookie’s Guide to Options by Mark D. Wolfinger Learn to use…
Options provide investors with the ability to proactively hedge their portfolios against potential market crashes. In this article, we will discuss the importance of being proactively hedged…