Volatility Skew Information
Volatility Skew – situation where individual options on a particular entity have different implied volatilities that form a pattern – the pattern can be a...
About our Volatility Data – Implied Volatility and Historical Volatility
Estimate of the volatility of the underlying stock Low implied volatility –> Option considered cheap Don’t blindly buy or sell based on Implied Volatility. There...
Covered Call Writing: Why Cash- Base Put Selling is Superior
Naked Put Selling = Covered call writing (but naked is better strategy due to lower cost) Covered call requires 2 commissions (stock and written call)....
Put – Call Ratios
The trading volume of put options to call options indicates the Investor Sentiment How to interpret put-call ratio: – higher ratio: time to sell but...
Which Option To Buy: Deciding What Contract Is Best
(i) Day Trading – Uses the underlying instrument with the highest possible delta (trade the stock, NOT the option) (ii) Short term Trading (1 to...
Options Trading Glossary
Backspread Any spread in which in-the-money options are sold and a greater quantity of out-of-the-money options are bought. In a more general sense, it may...
Free Online Courses (Other than Google) to Upgrade Yourself
As a continuation from my previous post on Free Google Courses Recommended, I have researched and tried out the free courses available online. I cannot...
Google Courses to Sign Up For
As a follow up from my previous post on how to save yourself from being retrenched, one of my tips was to improve on existing...
Linking Open Source API to Google Spreadsheets to Track Investment: GOOGLEFINANCE, IEX and Alpha Vantage
What is API API stands for Application Programming Interface. According to Google, API is a set of functions and procedures that allow the creation of...
Order Types on Interactive Broker
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