A futures contract—an agreement to buy or sell something at a specific price at some point in the future—lets traders speculate on the direction of a range of products, from the S&P 500®index (SPX) to commodities like gold or corn. Futures can help traders manage risks and diversify ...
How to Right-size Hedges Via Beta Weighting with XSP Options To hedge a portfolio of individual stocks, notional value alone may not tell the whole story. The Cboe Mini-SPX Index options contract, known by its symbol XSP, allows right-sizing given its lower notional values. 406.97Kviews Rela...
Unfortunately, the government hasn't provided a straightforward definition of what it considers "substantially identical." Investors have to use their best judgment to avoid the wash sale rule. For example, let's say you took a loss on an ETF tracking the S&P 500®index (SPX). To avoid a...
If you buy a call option for $1.00, are you comfortable losing $100? Will you allow that call to expire worthless if the reference asset (stock, ETF or index) doesn’t move beyond your strike price at expiration? If two weeks pass and the options decay to $0.50, will you plan on ...
TSX index options provide a way to bet on the S&P TSX 60 Index, which tracks the stock prices of 60 large Canadian corporations. These options trade on the Montreal Exchange and you can buy or sell them via an online brokerage account. You can buy call or put options, which benefit from...
The Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ) tracks the Nasdaq 100 – the go-to index for big tech growth stocks. Since 2010, the upward trendline in blue has supported QQQ’s price – and it’s now getting close to it again. As the chart suggests, buying the QQQ exchange-traded fund near the trendlin...
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Mini-SPX Index (XSP) SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) Invesco Nasdaq 100 Trust (QQQ) The growing popularity of these instruments may lead to more securities having daily-expiring options made available. Warning 0DTE options are significantly more volatile than options with a longer lifetime. ...
The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) represents the market’s expectations for the magnitude of short-term price changes, referred to as or volatility, in theS&P 500 index (SPX). The level of market volatility is used to gauge market sentiment and the level of fear and uncertainty among market p...