A strangle is a popular options strategy that involves holding both a call and a put on the same underlying asset. It yields ...

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There are some scheduled news events that can really move the markets and some that will barely cause the market to notice; hence, the market won’t move much or pull back. In fact, the market could ...

How to profit from a big move in either direction With earnings season right around the corner, options players might want to look into employing a long straddle strategy. A long straddle is typically ...

A long index straddle is a non-directional “volatility” trade that generates a profit when markets move sharply up or down or when volatility expands. Studies also have shown that volatility has a low ...

Straddles and strangles are slightly more complicated strategies than trading delta – but still among ways to start using the potential of options trading. Like most other options strategies, both ...

A few months ago, we explored trying to smooth out performance of consistently shorting straddles with a buying dated long straddle using NDX options. We found that a consistent strategy selling NDX 3 ...