Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Investment solutions that were once tailored for institutional investors have now become accessible to the retail market. As individual retail traders become more knowledgeable, their investment ...

SPY options let traders take bullish or bearish positions on derivatives that respond to price movements from the S&P 500. A long call is bullish and gains value from price increases to the S&P 500, ...

UBS thinks CTA positioning will exaggerate any downward movement. Option markets become extremely active around expiry on the third Friday of each month. Between now and the next major U.S. option ...

In my never-ending search for capital efficiency in my portfolio, I have been leveraging my short-term, low risk bond holdings as collateral to gain exposure to equity indices like the S&P 500 (SPX) ...

Options-related pessimism has unwound, which could result in short-term challenges “The market has bent pre-election, but going into this week and the FOMC meeting, it remains above the lower ...

A massive quarterly expiration of index options could move the market this week “… the SPX didn’t come close to retaking its 200-day moving average, as it did in early November 2023 following a 10% ...

The Neos S&P 500(R) High Income ETF offers a 12% annual yield through monthly payouts by selling covered calls on S&P 500 index options. SPYI's active management and use of tax-loss harvesting ...

Last week, I presented the growing risks to equity market bulls. Right after we shared this commentary, the potential scenario I presented for the upcoming week promptly unfolded. The S&P 500 Index ...