Block Trade

This is a measure of a stock’s volatility relative to the S&P 500 Index. High Beta stocks have high volatility. Stocks that have a beta reading of 1.00 or greater tend to move faster or are more volatile than the S&P index. And stocks that have a beta less than 1.00 tend to move slower…

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…

This is also known as the offer. The asking price is the current market price at which an investor can buy the option in the market. 

Combination positions are positions in more than one option at the same time. Spreads and straddles are two types of combination positions. A spread involves being both the buyer and writer of the same type of option (puts or calls) on the same underlying interest, with the options having different exercise prices and/or expiration dates….

This is when you sell an options contract and simultaneously buy one with a later expiration date and a higher or lower strike price. For example, if your sell to open the AAPL NOV 145.00 Call and then buy to open the AAPL DEC 150.00 Call , you have created a diagonal spread. See also:…

The price change in an option for every point move in the underlying Stock/ETF. Put options have negative deltas.  See Also: Delta Neutral