ETFs like the JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF are designed to boost income. To do so, the fund gives up something that can be extremely valuable for long-term investors. There's an exchange-traded ...

The VIX/SPY hedge: When volatility increases and the term structures invert, it is also the case that VIX futures begin to trade at discounts to VIX. When VIX futures trade at a steep discount to VIX, ...

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Unsurprisingly, CF Industries shares have rallied nearly 24% since the initial strikes and, as one would expect, options premiums have risen sharply as well, as traders handicap possible outcomes. CF ...

Investors in VF Corp. (Symbol: VFC) saw new options become available today, for the April 10th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the VFC options chain ...

A collar options strategy protects stock holdings from significant losses while limiting potential gains. Investors create a collar by owning shares of a stock. They then purchase a put option below ...

If you have an Apple iPhone, you might have noticed that while sometimes, the option to decline an incoming call pops up on screen, at other times there's no option at all. While one phone call may ...

Palantir Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:PLTR) stock has remained a staple on Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White's list of names seeing the most attention from options traders over the past ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock has had heavy, unusual trading in short-term out-of-the-money call options today. Based on the company's strong earnings results yesterday, it could be a bullish ...

Before the opening bell ever rings on a company's initial public offerings, some of the executives may already be sitting on a quiet windfall. An IPO can act as a source of "cheap money" because of ...