Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

Hedge funds, institutional investors, academic researchers now have access to gold standard in options data available intraday, to quickly assess risk and trading strategies, alongside increasing ...

For years, I’ve believed that volatility is the primary driver of investment. It’s an inarticulate encapsulation of a capital markets theory, but when all the rhetoric is boiled away, volatility ...

Learn about backspreads, a trading strategy involving more purchased calls or puts than sold ones. Understand its workings and types for effective trading.

Market conditions present various challenges for options traders as this tastylive episode examines current trading opportunities. Tony Battista and Chris Vecchio explore market dynamics when ...

This analysis explores such tools using Tesla’s stock movement in 2025 as an example. During the selloff, Tesla approached key technical support levels, while options market sentiment appeared to turn ...

Investing is about choices. Every investor faces the same challenge: how to grow wealth while controlling risk. Value investing works best for investors willing to wait for fundamentals to assert ...

Margin rule change aims to enhance capital efficiencies when writing cash-settled index options against ETFs based on the same index Enables traders to use cash-settled index options as an efficient ...

Something unusual is happening in a market long dominated by index funds. Active management is staging a comeback. Take the action in equity exchange-traded funds two weeks ago. Amid more whipsaw ...