Options

Tax treatment and portfolio concentration are two important considerations for employees trying to figure out whether this is a good time to exercise their options. It might not be.

Few firms have a better handle on the current scene or a stronger risk-management culture than Goldman Sachs.

The crypto exchange operator and CoinDesk owner made its trading debut in mid-August.

Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers, on 24-hour trading, stablecoins, tariffs, and the economy.

Gold’s special quality as an all-purpose, antianxiety asset for investors is evident in its performance. The metal is up 43% this year alone, compared with 14% for the S&P 500.

If the president secures a positive outcome to China tariff negotiations, stocks will probably rally. Who knows what else he’s planning?

The IEX options exchange will bring to the options market the same “speed bump” entrance ramp that IEX uses in its stock exchange to slow all incoming orders by 350 millionths of a second.

We had been measured ahead of the Fed meeting. Now that risks seem to be easing, it makes it easier to have conviction that stocks can advance in a lower-rate environment.

Walmart has gained the support of one of Wall Street’s most influential banks. Goldman Sachs added the stock to its conviction list, which highlights its best investment ideas.

There’s a sword of Damocles menacing Wall Street: a massive position financed with borrowed money that hangs over the stock and options markets.

Aggressive investors can play both sides of the Fed’s decision on interest rates in September by considering put and call spreads on the iShares Russell 2000 exchange-traded fund.

Many investors speculate on events, even though they are hard to accurately predict. There is an easier way to try to make money—look at your calendar to track a variety of potentially market-moving factors.

Markets’ relative calm means put options are fairly inexpensive.

It is understandable that many investors are struggling to imagine the financial world without Buffett. But it is silly to think he has failed to prepare his company for what comes next.

Anyone with the luxury of time should treat market declines as buying opportunities. How to tap the power of put option sales and call option spreads.

CME Group’s ability to attract retail investors to futures trading will be a game-changer for the industry.

Speculation is in, conservatism is out as retail investors bid up questionable assets and imaginative financing exploits the public mood. Buyers, beware.

When done right, a “gamma squeeze” can cause shares of heavily shorted stocks to skyrocket.

Call-option spreads give investors a way to bet on a continuation of the bullish trend in U.S. stocks—while limiting risk.

Shares have nearly tripled in value over the past week.

Huge swaths of investors disagree over the growth rates of corporate earnings and the economy. Yet the primary barometer of stock and options volatility, the Cboe Volatility Index, is acting like everything is fine.

Day trading in “play accounts,” betting on crypto, and experimenting with options have a lot in common with sports betting and prediction markets.

Successful long-term investors invest in good times and bad. A better plan is to use puts to be ready to buy if stocks suddenly decline.

High-margin companies are sought after by investors—especially during periods like now, when Israel and Iran’s detente might prove shaky and Ukraine and Russia remain at war.

The current geopolitical instability naturally appeals to many investors who want oil exposure, given the potential for a price surge.