Front Month contracts are options contracts that have the least amount of time remaining before expiration. For example, on the 1st of August, the front month contract would the contract that expires in the Month of August.
Similarly, on August 31st, the front month contract is the September contract is the front month contract because the August contract has already expired.
The price change in an option for every point move in the underlying Stock/ETF. Put options have negative deltas. See Also: Delta Neutral
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 the process of carrying out the terms of an options contract. A call buyer can exercise his or her right to buy the stock at the strike price. A put owner can exercise his or her right to sell the contract. See also: Exercise Price, Exercise Settlement Value, Automatic Exercise
This is basically a big change in Implied Volatility [IV]. IV gaps higher when the market expects the underlying Stock/ETF to make a big move in the short term. IV can gap lower when an important event, like an earnings report, has passed. The big gap up in the IV can cause the premium of…
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….
Options Ratio is basically the number of puts traded divided by the number of calls. It can be applied to an individual stock, a sector, an index, or an entire market. Put/call ratios are generally used in contrary manner. For example, when ratios reach extremely high levels, put buying is unusually high and it could…
