Implied volatility is a powerful but often misunderstood metric that plays a major role in options trading. Implied volatility doesn’t tell you what’s going to happen to an option’s price, but it ...

Investors in Kura Oncology Inc. KURA need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. That is because the Apr 17, 2026 $17.00 Call had some of the highest implied ...

CVI is an algorithm for constructing implied volatility surfaces that is framed as a convex optimisation problem. As such, it is suitable to be processed by modern optimisation solvers like CVXPY, ...

Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied volatility suggest that investors in the underlying stocks are expecting a big ...

The risk with options straddles and options strangles is limited Options straddles and options strangles are two advanced options strategies that can be used to capitalize on changes in implied ...

The volatility term structure, which plots implied volatility against different expiration dates for options on the same underlying asset, can reveal when potential catalysts are anticipated by ...

IV spikes hint at traders to anticipate an IV crush With the new year approaching, many traders are reassessing their strategies and preparing for market conditions ahead. While implied volatility (IV ...

Traders are piling into options as supply disruptions from the war in Iran send oil and other commodity prices soaring.

Micron is showing strong accumulation as earnings approach. One way to take advantage of this is via a diagonal put spread.

Most performance issues have little to do with precision and far more to do with how options behave as time passes and volatility environments change.