Options News and Commentary

Nobody really knows where PLTR stock may head next but there is triangulation factor that most traders are ignoring.

Calendar spreads are a versatile options strategy that allows traders to capitalize on time decay and changes in implied volatility.

Lululemon sank to $123.51 on Tuesday, its 37th 52-week low in a year, dragging the stock to a five-year bottom—and setting up a high-risk, contrarian trade for investors willing to bet on a sharp turnaround....

Two large tranches of Palantir Technologies call options have traded today. Investors could be bullish on PLTR as it is well off recent peaks. I discussed this in a recent Barchart article.

Using the June 18th expiry, the trade would involve buying the 17 strike call, selling two of the 25 strike calls and buying one of the 33 strike calls. The cost for the trade would be $268 which is the...

An unusually large in-the-money (ITM) put option tranche expiring over the next month in Taiwan Semiconductor shows investors are still bullish on TSM stock.

Following a 27% YTD loss, most folks would arguably give up on ELF stock. However, the smart money seems to have different ideas.

June WTI futures prices are slowly moving higher, over $99 today. One profitable play is to sell short out-of-the-money one-month Chevron calls and puts. I discussed this last month, and it has worked...

Intel Corp stock has been in a huge uptrend for the last two months and could be due for a pause here.

There's a historically bullish seasonal window for longer-dated interest rates from now through early August. Lower liquidity in summer often leads to a "search for yield," big coupon reinvestment flows...