the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (Cboe) announced that it would issue weekly options with expiration days on each day of the week.1This announcement applied to options on the S&P 500 Index (SPX), but more symbols have continued to ...
Yet the volatility of the VIX and the volatility of the stock market aren’t always in sync. Because options traders are looking a month ahead, they could be worrying about something in the future that sends the VIX higher, while the actual market isn’t moving much. On the other hand,...
The maximum profit in this strategy is the difference between the strike prices of the long and short options less the net cost of the options—in other words, the debit. The maximum loss is only limited to the netpremium(debit) paid for the options. A bull call spread'sprofitincreases a...
Index options are a good way to protect your investments, but how much should you use? Will they be enough? The challenge is understanding the relationship between how much your positions will move for every corresponding move in the S&P 500® Index (SPX™). TheCboe Mini-SPX Index option...
Yesterday bitcoin didn’t do much: it finished up just 0.02% from where it started. And over the past couple of weeks, it’s mostly hovered within a narrow 5% range. But this chart shows anotherBollinger Band squeezein the works (blue circle). And that suggests bitcoin’s next big move...
4A theoretical measure of how much of the delta of an option is expected to change per $1 move in the underlying. 5An option whose strike is "at" the price of the underlying equity. Like out-of-the-money (OTM) options, the premium of an at-the-money (ATM) option is all time val...
there are some compensations: You will be able to add the amount of the loss back onto the cost basis of the replacement security, which can help with taxes later, as we'll see below. In addition, the holding period of the original security gets tacked onto to the holding period of the...
The article considers the impact of offshoring on the U.S. economy. According to the June 18, 2007 issue of "BusinessWeek," the problem with offshoring is that the country has been dependent on misleading monthly import-price data that fail to cover the cost savings of offshoring manufacturing...
QYLD generates income by writing covered call options on the entire index — a process described here. QYLD has done an excellent job of providing double-digit annual dividend yields, but the cost has been significant capital erosion over the years. The fund’s closing price on ...
It has been exactly 60 years since Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, a move intended to ensure that women earn as much as men in equivalent jobs. But despite significant progress, we still haven’t reached that goal. And since 1997, New York City women have actually lost ground. Women ...