Bitcoin Volatility Dips To 8-Month Low, Signals Potential Breakout. Bitcoin 's implied volatility has sunk to 36%, its lowest in eight months, signaling that professional traders expect the next move ...

Bitcoin's implied volatility plunged to a multi-month low, signaling that traders expect further price consolidation.

In several recent articles for "Know Your Options" I've referred to implied volatility as it relates to the price of options that all expire at the same time. The aim has been to construct trades in ...

The VIX is still near historical lows while the SKEW is near the high end of its range. Recently high-profile analysis by Oaktree's Howard Marks and JPMorgan's Marko Kolanovic may have awakened the ...

Traditional volatility indexes use nearly every out-of-the-money option listed, even those which rarely trade and have wide bid/ask spreads. The result is statistical noise which makes it difficult ...

Treasury options traders began pricing the 2-year yield risk to the downside and 10 and 30-year to the upside beginning in July With both intraday and historical options values available, traders can ...

Nasdaq-100 ended April with a 15.7% monthly gain. Into the second week of May, NDX has tacked on another 4.5%. When index ...

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