And it gets trickier… How Volatility Accelerates Time Decay Even if you get the direction right on a short-term option, the move has to be substantial enough to offset the time decay.

The formula for the VIX determines expected volatility by looking at the prices of options on SP 500 futures.

Scanning for unusual options activity (UOA) gives us great insight into how traders view the market… Last week, for example, traders were going big on beaten-down stocks.

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For example, let’s say we buy a call option on Apple with an exercise price of $150 and an expiration date of August 20.

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But first, I want to look back at some of my previous Bank It calls, and see how they got where they are today… 3 “Bank It” Breakouts, 3 Opportunities to Profit Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON) was a popular stock for my video series.

On average, the gain in OEF is 0.9% in the week after a CPI release, significantly better than the average one-week gain of 0.5%.

While I tend to screen for large option orders on specific stocks, last week I also noticed a lot of smart options activity taking place.

Ian developed a crypto flash strategy for the first wave of this bull run, and … the gains were completely nuts!