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On the latest Market Mashup, Patrick is back with author, analyst, and options trader extraordinaire Don Fishback to discuss his work on options valuation and probability over the years. Don shares ...

Patrick: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Schaeffer's Market Mash up as promised I have a very, very special guest with me today. Author, analyst, world renowned options, expert, Don Fishback ...

Learn how option premiums are determined by factors like stock price, time to expiration, and volatility. Master the basics ...

Option spreads can be a tremendous tool for generating high-probability income in your investment account. While the trade setups may take a little more thought and planning to implement, a spread ...

Delta is a measure related to options that traders can use to predict option price movements based on the change in the underlying asset. It can also be used to assess the probability that a given ...

I recently discussed the ability to use implied volatility to calculate the probability of a successful outcome for any given option trade. To review briefly, the essential concepts a trader must ...

This paper documents that riskier firms with higher idiosyncratic volatility grant more stock options to nonexecutive employees. Standard models in the literature cannot easily explain this pattern; a ...

The great thing about options is their versatility. Traders who learn how to trade options can create strategies that meet their particular criteria for risk, reward and probability of success with a ...

Chris McKhann is an expert in options trading and volatility research. He is also the director and founder of iVol Trading and SledRX. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She ...