Consistent market volatility has become the new normal for traders. Everything from geopolitical conflicts to erratic policy decisions to unprecedented news cycles has markets swinging in ways that ...

Options trading is often used to hedge stock positions, but traders can also use options to speculate on price movements. For example, a trader might hedge an existing bet made on the price increase ...

Last Friday was a good reminder of why hedging exists. The QQQ ETF that tracks the Nasdaq-100 dropped 4.8% in a single session, volume hit three times its normal daily level and options positions that ...

A put option (or "put"), which gives the holder the right to sell, can be contrasted with a call option, which provides the holder with the right to buy the underlying security at a specified price, ...

Open interest in the bitcoin options market on Deribit has reached a record high, with a notional value of $50.27 billion. The surge in open interest is marked by growing popularity of put options, ...

Fri, June 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC As of June 9, Bitcoin is firmly in a bear market. I'm literally watching the price as I write this. It has slipped below $62,000 and is now sitting around $61,790 per ...