Earnings season creates some of the biggest — and trickiest — moves in the market. Price gaps, volatility spikes, and rapid ...

GameStop Corp (GME) reported excellent results yesterday for its fiscal Q2 ended Nov. 1. Today, there is a huge, unusual call options trading in GME. GME stock is well off its recent highs. Should ...

Momentum trading strategies tend to amplify market moves into option expiry and UBS warns if the market has a 5% downtick, ...

The Federal Reserve is a lock to deliver a quarter-point cut to its benchmark interest rate Wednesday, going by action in the rates swaps market. Equity derivatives traders are still bracing for a ...

An outage at the world's biggest exchange operator CME Group on Friday halted trading on its popular currency platform and in ...

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An option is a financial instrument whose value is tied to an underlying asset; this is known as a derivative. Instead of buying an asset, such as company stock, outright, an options contract allows ...