Investment solutions that were once tailored for institutional investors have now become accessible to the retail market. As individual retail traders become more knowledgeable, their investment ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In my never-ending search for capital efficiency in my portfolio, I have been leveraging my short-term, low risk bond holdings as collateral to gain exposure to equity indices like the S&P 500 (SPX) ...

Options-related pessimism has unwound, which could result in short-term challenges “The market has bent pre-election, but going into this week and the FOMC meeting, it remains above the lower ...

UBS thinks CTA positioning will exaggerate any downward movement. Option markets become extremely active around expiry on the third Friday of each month. Between now and the next major U.S. option ...

The Neos S&P 500(R) High Income ETF offers a 12% annual yield through monthly payouts by selling covered calls on S&P 500 index options. SPYI's active management and use of tax-loss harvesting ...

Welcome to the high-stakes world of 0 Days to Expiration (0 DTE) options trading on the SPX (S&P 500 Index)! This guide delves into credit spreads and unveils a powerful tool – Gamma exposure (GEX) by ...

Last week, I presented the growing risks to equity market bulls. Right after we shared this commentary, the potential scenario I presented for the upcoming week promptly unfolded. The S&P 500 Index ...

Neither bulls nor bears have exerted command in these final weeks of 2025. Since mid-September, the SPX has been locked in a range between 6,550 and 6,900. Zoom in on the SPX’s price action with an ...

For the first three days of the week and going into Friday’s payroll data (the market was closed on Thursday to honor late president Jimmy Carter), the S&P 500 Index (SPX —5,827.04) continued to ping ...