The grinding market price action over the past trading week is mainly attributable to seasonal year-end implied volatility selling during the holiday-shortened trading week. The one thing the rally is ...

Bitcoin stabilized after a 19% drawdown as futures leverage cooled, options demand for downside protection hit cycle highs, ...

US equity options had been pricing a market built for rotation rather than outright panic. Pre Iran renewed attacks, on 27 February, the S&P 500 30-day realized dispersion index printed 37.75, while ...

The South Korean stock market has been so turbulent in recent days that expectations for future swings pale in comparison.

Uncertainty ahead of Wednesday’s U.K. budget prompted options traders to increase their protection against big swings in sterling in recent days. Implied volatility—a measure of expected price swings ...

Stifel has identified bond volatility as an attractive opportunity, noting that the MOVE Index and TLT are trading near one-year lows despite last week’s selloff when 2-year, 5-year and 10-year U.S.

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 ...

Bitcoin’s BTC $69,910.74 implied volatility (IV) has moved from 33 to 37 on Monday, a notable uptick from multi-year lows and a possible signal that the market’s long stretch of calm is nearing an end ...

Investors in Omnicell, Inc. OMCL need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. That is because the Feb 20, 2026 $17.50 Put had some of the highest implied ...