Earnings season is here, ladies and gentlemen, and with it comes heightened volatility for many stocks as investors anticipate, and react to, quarterly reports. What can savvy traders do to capitalize ...

If you're new to options trading, you might be confused by the many terms, such as vertical options, straddles, and strangles. The following article will introduce you to each type and explain why ...

An options strangle is a strategy to profit from price swings in either direction of an underlying asset. How does an options strangle work and what are the risks and rewards involved? Benzinga ...

Trading options can be a complicated process as a lot of options strategies are available and traders need to evaluate all of the possible routes ahead of executing a trade. As such, Schaeffer's are ...

In options trading, a "strangle" refers to an options position that consists of both a call and a put option on the same underlying stock, with the contracts having identical expirations but differing ...

A long strangle is an option strategy that benefits from a large move in the underlying stock in a short space of time. The trader doesn’t care which way the stock moves, as long as it moves a lot.

A trader recently reached out asking about an option trading approach that they picked up from a book written back in the 1990’s. The basic idea was to buy a long dated strangle and consistently sell ...

Merck is showing high implied volatility at 32.3%, which is close to the highest level of volatility we have seen for this stock in 12 months. As option traders, we can take advantage of that by ...

Robinhood (HOOD) is exactly the kind of underlying where selling volatility can make more sense than trying to predict the next headline-driven price swing — especially after a sharp pullback and with ...

On Thursday, April 9, 2015, at 12:00 noon ET, the WASDE report will be released. WASDE stands for the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report. This report can cause massive moves in the ...