Block Trade

To anyone new to trading options. You need to understand, this is a craft. A skill. You must learn and respect it, or it is going to disrespect you. Very violently in some cases. You HAVE to know what you’re doing, not just THINK you know what you’re doing. You must understand the Greeks. This is essentially what your option is. If you…

These are the Options with the most time left until expiration. Or, simply, the most distant expiration months. As you can see in the image below, the Jan 2024 and the Jun 2024 expiration would be considered the “back months” because they have 570 and 724 days to expiration, respectively.

This is basically the level of volatility reflected in the current options prices. Each options contract has a unique level of implied volatility that is computed using an options pricing model. The Implied Volatility (IV) is fluid and consistently changing. When the IV is high, it indicates that the option premiums are expensive. When the…

This is basically any spread where the premium paid from buying part of the spread is greater than the premium received for the other part of the spread. For example if you bought the GOOGL 95.00 Calls for 8.00 and sold the 100.00 Calls for 5.50 the debit would be 2.50 See also: Credit Spread,…

Time value is whatever the premium of the option is in addition to its intrinsic value. Time value is that part of the premium that reflects the time remaining before expiration. An American-style option may ordinarily be expected to trade for no less than its intrinsic value prior to its expiration, although occasionally an American-style…

A binary option is a cash-settled option having only two possible payoff outcomes: either a fixed amount or nothing at all. Some binary options are referred to as “fixed return options.” As of the date this product was approved for trading, the only binary options approved for trading (other than credit default options, as defined…