Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial ...

Implied volatility is a powerful but often misunderstood metric that plays a major role in options trading. Implied volatility doesn't tell you what's going to happen to an option's price, but it ...

John Summa is the founder of OptionsNerd.com and has authored a number of books. He has 6+ years as a chief economist and derivatives strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical ...

One of the most important risk factors when trading financial assets and their derivatives is the actual and historical volatility of the underlying asset that impacts the implied volatility used to ...