Steven M. Sears

Many call buyers likely have no idea that the implied volatility of calls is so high that stocks must make huge moves for them to profit.

Investor positioning is so optimistic that earnings disappointments could trigger a massive stock reversal.

How to profit from rallies while reducing your risk should stocks swoon.

Rather than buying AI stocks, investors can create “synthetic stock” that risks less money while maximizing gains. 

While waiting for the options market to mature, we recognize that the temptation of a hot stock will be difficult for many to resist.

Expect high volume and extraordinary volatility when trading opens at 9:30.

Options trading on the new stock likely to start on June 16. Volume, and volatility, could be off the charts.

This is a momentum-based market, and such markets have a special risk. As the S&P 500 approaches 8000, consider this options strategy.

Nvidia, Meta, and others have taken hits in the market over fears about capital spending. Selling calls can ease the sting for investors.

Here’s an investing strategy that can help you buy low and sell high, even as global risks grow.

Exchanges and regulators are morphing markets into a 24/7 casino, which creates many opportunities for smart people to take money from dumb people. 

After earnings season ends, there won‘t be much to entertain investors. Many of them perceive markets as a perpetual movie and themselves as cosplay characters.

Options strategies offer ways to participate in future upside for hot stocks—and protect yourself from a potential selloff.

Trading points to jitters about the broad market, and optimism about most Big Tech earnings. How to play both those views.

The hidden institutional drivers powering today’s bull market might not end well for individual investors. Pay attention.

Since the financial crisis, stocks have benefited from a prolonged period of low interest rates, and technology has made stock and options investing like playing videogames. Investors seem to have lost the ability to be wary.

It’s an aggressive trading strategy that is intended to generate big returns on securities with high implied volatility created by exogenous events.

The environment is simply too uncertain for anyone to conclude that they must buy stocks based on fear of missing out.

President Trump posted on Monday that his representatives were negotiating to end the war. Iran posted back that it was a lie. What should investors do?

The risk is that the war lasts longer than expected and the shipping industry takes even longer to recover. The recent weakness in financial markets could be an amuse-bouche before a bearish feast.