What is a physical delivery option ?

The option writer is obligated—if and when assigned an exercise—to perform according to the terms of the option. The option writer is sometimes referred to as the option seller. An option writer who has been assigned an exercise is known as an assigned writer. Example:If a physical delivery XYZ call option is exercised by the…

How Do You Find Option Sweeps? There are two ways you can go about finding Option Sweeps:  If you go with option 1 then you need to set your filters to look for repeat activity in a stock and then you will have to tabulate the total number of contracts that are bought across all…

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.

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…

This is a measure of Historical Volatility computed as the annualized standard deviation of returns over a period of days (20, 30, 90 days). See also Implied Volatility & Historical volatility

An Iron Butterfly is a trade that is created by putting on a Short Straddle (selling at the money puts and calls) and a Long Straddle (buying out of the money puts and calls). These types of trades limit the amount of money that you can make and it also limits the potential loss. But…