How to profit from an IV crush with options strategies Understanding IV (implied volatility) Crush is crucial for options traders because it is a key component of option pricing. In this article, we ...

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Because of the complexity of options trading, the options market is presumably dominated by more sophisticated investors than an average stock investor. However, when options investors let their ...

Jeff Kohler has 20+ years of experience as a trader/analyst. He currently runs TradingAddicts.com, providing market insight and analysis to investors. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial ...

One of the major factors that influences the price of an option is implied volatility (IV). In simplest terms, implied volatility is the anticipated movement of an underlying equity over a certain ...

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In Know Your Options, I tend to mention Implied Volatility quite often. I’m sure most readers already understand the general idea that options with high IVs are expensive and options with low IVs are ...

Earnings crush is the fall in implied volatility (IV) after earnings is announced. Typically, earnings announcements cause the price of the stock to move more than normal. The move will have more ...

Bitcoin’s BTC $90,355.26 implied volatility (IV) has moved from 33 to 37 on Monday, a notable uptick from multi-year lows and a possible signal that the market’s long stretch of calm is nearing an end ...