Options Trading

The Ratio Spread, is a vertical type spread used in trend-less market periods, it’s a simple strategy. In the case of Call Ratio Spreads it involves the buying of one ITM Call option and the writing  .... read more

Most short term stock traders, from day-traders to swing traders are completely unaware of a tendency that exists in the US markets, that is a tendency to close up or down depending on what day of the week it is! Believe it or not, the day of the week, has been statistically tested, and back-tested over 20years, the results are conclusive that the pattern does exist!.....   read more

Forex options are very interesting trading vehicles, that offer greater flexibility than futures contracts do. Generally they are not very suitable for very short term intraday trading, however they are very useful in longer term trading. I have found out myself, being a forex futures trader is extremely hard.,.....   read more

As we all know, the passage of time affects the premium of options, particularly the OTM options, the less an option is ITM the more the factor of time decay matters (The Theta metric) we know that this time decay accelerates....   read more

We know that when we buy options contracts, we use the appropriate strategy and then attempt to make money either on the intrinsic part of the option premium (where Delta matters most) or on the extrinsic part of the option premium (where volatility matters most),  beyond that, there are also.....