Volatility

When it comes to speculation or hedging, options are capital-efficient tools that provide leveraged exposure in the markets, allowing traders to capitalize on their market opinions at a low cost. What Are Options? An option contract is a derivative of an underlying asset; it is an insurance...

Wall Street’s latest case of the yips finally injected some much needed life into precious metal futures. Gold, silver and platinum have floundered near 52-week lows or worse in the midst of a seemingly unassailable U.S. Dollar and generally stable commodity prices. In the midst of falling...

U.S. stocks are off to another volatile day of trading Wednesday, with the Dow giving up 400 points on the day. While the trading action has most investors taking huge losses, the VIX volatility index and its derivatives have produced major gains in the past week. What Happened In the past week,...

Tilray Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRY) investors witnessed some extreme volatility this week. Shares of the cannabis company surged as high as 90 percent Wednesday before the stock was halted five times leading up to the closing bell. Characteristics of Tilray’s stock performance this week very...

China-based Qutoutiao Inc. (NASDAQ: QTT) is a news recommendation application that produces aggregate articles and short entertainment videos from an array of freelancers and professionals. The platform is known for having customizable features for its users to find the best and most pertinent...

Panama City-based Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA) is demonstrating revenue initiatives, demand recovery and an attractive share value, according to Buckingham Research Group. The Analyst Analyst Daniel McKenzie upgraded Copa Holdings from Neutral to Buy and reduced the...

The volatility index, also known as the "fear index," is intended to measure the implied forward 30-day volatility of the market by using at-the-money put and call option prices for certain stocks. But this begs an important question: how accurate is the index? What To Know The volatility...

The international trade war among the U.S., China and Europe may have investors uneasy, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at market volatility. After spiking back in February, the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index is down about 30 percent in the past three months, suggesting the market...

A mysterious volatility trader known only as “50 Cent” appears to have returned to the market this week, making large bets on an uptick in market volatility. Here’s a look at what they've been buying and what it means. Big Payoff The “50 Cent” trader earned his...

Bitcoin bulls arguing that the popular cryptocurrency could surpass gold as a flight to safety investment have gotten some discouraging market feedback in the past several weeks. When the S&P 500 experienced its largest sell-off in years this month, it coincided with bitcoin’s lowest...

A frequent criticism of low volatility exchange-traded funds is that these funds leave some upside on the table during bull markets. That critique misses the mark because the objective of low volatility strategies is not to capture all of the upside in a bull market, but rather to perform less...

Market volatility continued Thursday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting another triple-digit loss. Naturally, very few stocks have navigated the volatility seen over the past few trading sessions unscathed, so investors may want to take a closer look at stocks that experienced the...

Michael Schmanske doesn’t blame creative or contrived innovation for the financial markets’ extreme, multi-session volatility. He blames ignorance. “Some of these [market-levered products] should have a skull and crossbones attached to them: ‘these products will kill you if...

Heading into Wednesday's session, Dow futures implied the stock market would open with another triple-digit loss. By midday, the Dow was up about 130 points to 25,045. The Experts James Liu, head of research at Clearnomics, and CNBC's Jim Cramer.  Liu: Long-Term Investors Should Be...