Bitcoin's BTC $86,419.09 recent double-digit rally has sparked a positive sentiment shift among crypto options traders. The leading cryptocurrency by market value has gained 13% this month, topping ...

Stochastic volatility models have revolutionised the field of option pricing by allowing the volatility of an asset to vary randomly over time rather than remain constant. These models have ...

The volatility smile is a visual representation of the implied volatilities of options contracts that expire on the same date. The appearance of a volatility smile indicates that options traders are ...

Currency Traders focus on technical patterns and price action to strategize their next trades. Yet, there is another component of analysis that provides a different diagnostic lense:sentiment.

One of the oldest questions in finance is how to price options – those financial instruments which give you the right, but not the obligation, to purchase an asset in the future at a set price. For ...

Oil markets are moving a great deal on Tuesday as stories and rumors related to last weekend's attack proliferate. Markets don't at present seem to be attaching too much concern on immediate military ...

IN THIS week's print edition we write about the return of the Great Moderation, which my colleague discusses in more detail here. "Judged by quarter-to-quarter swings in GDP growth and month-to-month ...