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Do you believe a stock is set to move sharply in the next few days, weeks or months? You don’t have to guess the direction if you initiate a strangle or a straddle. These options trading strategies ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. A strangle is a variation on the straddle, and it presents some interesting possibilities in terms of profit ...

When market direction is uncertain, but conditions are anything but calm, what's an option trader to do? Two strategies that might fit are longer term straddles or strangles. CBOE Volatility Index SPX ...

When traders first start using options, they often employ them either as a way to take a directional view on an asset (buying a call if they expect it to rise or a put if they expect it to fall) or as ...

With earnings season ramping up, traders might be looking for a way to cash in on this especially volatile time of the year. However, predicting a stock's post-earnings trajectory can be difficult to ...