The VIX recently surpassed 40 amid trade-war volatility for the first time since 2020. The VIX moves inversely to the S&P 500 and indicates expected market volatility. To capitalize on the spike, ...

Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech and strategic finance in top universities. She has been an investor, entrepreneur, and advisor for more than ...

Analysts and traders are adapting to a market dominated by AI-fueled semiconductor rallies, algorithmic headline trading, and sharp intraday volatility patterns. Strategies now emphasize detecting ...

Put and call options are the building blocks of many options trading strategies. A call option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a specified price (the strike price ...

Old-school bond investors are showing that it’s not just the fast-money crowd who can thrive in this volatile new era. Long a staid, reliable place where money managers parked retirement savings, ...

Central bank announcements are among the most significant market-moving events in forex trading. Interest rate decisions, policy statements, and press conferences from institutions such as the Federal ...

Meagan is a former Series 7 financial advisor and current writer focused on blending straightforward information with a dose of humor on topics including equity investments, insurance products, and ...

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 ...

For decades, trading was built around one core belief: speed wins. The faster trader had the advantage. The quicker reaction ...

BTIG announced today the appointment of Jason Rockland as a Managing Director and Yingkang Duan as a Director within the firm ...

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 ...

As new traders flood the market, a return to the basics may help novices understand the fundamentals of options trading. Volatility, for example, refers to the propensity of a security's price to move ...