Volatility can be a double-edged sword, providing quick gains if you nail the directional view and timing, but sting quickly if you’re on the wrong side. However, volatility can be harvested using ...

Last week I wrote about how the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) was at extremely low levels. The VIX measures implied volatilities, or option prices on S&P 500 Index (SPX) options. It's telling us that ...

Looking at some of Schaeffer's commonly used options indicators At Schaeffer’s, we use a variety of indicators in our writing to describe stock and trader behavior. While some of these terms may seem ...

Bitcoin BTC $87,123.65 traders will soon get the one thing they love the most: market volatility. That's the signal from a technical indicator called Bollinger bandwidth, which is used to gauge ...

A bitcoin BTC $102,024.53 indicator is suggesting a build-up of speculative froth in the market, often a recipe for leverage flushout and a sudden drop in price. The ratio between the implied yield ...

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 ...

The Nasdaq-100 is a very different index than the S&P500. It is technology dominant, excludes financials by design, and is historically underweight in many of the old economy stocks in the energy and ...

Bitcoin’s recent rejection at $12,400 triggered $234 million in futures contract liquidations across derivatives exchanges. Despite a 30% rally in the past 30 days, maintaining the $11,700 level as ...

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