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Quadruple Witching Dates 2025-2026 (How to Trade & Essential Dates)
Learn about the concept of Quadruple Witching and its potential impact on the stock market. Find out the upcoming Quadruple Witching dates.

Triple Witching Dates 2025/2026 - What Is Triple Witching? (and How Can You Trade It?)
Among the recurring events in options trading, triple witching dates are something you cannot afford to ignore. But what is triple witching?

How are Options Priced? A Clear Explanation [Beginner-Friendly]
While it may be relatively straightforward to understand how stock prices work, options pricing can be a bit more complex. Options pricing is determined by intrinsic and extrinsic values. So, how...

Real-Life Examples of the Strangle Option Strategy [Practical application]
If you are open to trying multi-leg strategies in options trading, then you'll likely find yourself dealing with the strangle option strategy. This involves buying or selling a call and put option...

Straddle Option Strategy - Two Option Strategies for Handling Market Volatility
Once you learn how a simple long call and long put trades work, there's a good chance you will become more interested in advanced strategies. This guide will focus on the straddle option strategy,...

The Importance of Keeping an Options Trading Journal [Excel Template]
Successful traders have strategies and systems in place to consistently make profitable trades, but they also have something else that is often overlooked - a trading journal. A trading journal is...

The Trader's Lifestyle: Selling Cash Secured Puts for Income [Calculator included]
One of the many benefits of options trading is that, while perhaps less easy than it seems, it is not unrealistic to make a living by selling cash secured puts for income. This strategy involves...

A Backtested Approach to Using Bollinger Bands in Options Trading - Part 1
All traders know that, in general, a few rules will hold true no matter what the market climate is (especially when using the Bollinger Band indicator or similar tools). For instance, stocks move...

The Top Earnings Option Strategies for Any Market
Throughout every quarter, a good earnings option strategy can help you making sense out of the increased price volatility in the stock market. Today, we will look into four main strategies that,...

Understanding What Is an IV Crush and Its Implications for Options Traders
There are few certainties in the life of an option trader, but the fact that the implied volatility of an option will regularly crush after a major event linked to the company is among these. If...