To determine which stocks delivered the most attractive options plays, I calculated returns on four-week straddles starting ...

Who Can Straddle in Poker and What Must the Player Do? What Is a Straddle in Poker? A poker straddle is when someone is confident enough to make a bet before cards are dealt that doubles the stakes.

A short straddle is a neutral options strategy that entails writing uncovered, or naked, calls and puts simultaneously, at the same strike price and expiration, on a certain underlying stock. With a ...

With options, you can speculate on the future price of a financial market. The price of a straddle is the cost of buying two options – it tells traders about the volatility anticipated in a financial ...

Short dated or daily index options have taken the world by storm. Nasdaq-100 (NDX) index options are one of just a handful of markets with daily expirations. The process behind rolling out daily NDX ...

Options allow investors and traders to enter into positions and to make money in ways that are not possible simple by buying or selling short the underlying security. If you only trade the underlying ...

Long straddles allow gains if a stock moves significantly, either up or down, after setup. The trade's risk is capped at the initial cost, but full loss occurs if stock ends at strike price. Straddles ...

About a month ago, I wrote about the extremely low historical volatility reading for the S&P 500 Index (SPX). Low volatility on the index does not necessarily mean a lack of opportunities for option ...