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Cryptocurrency Exchange OKEx Launches Options Trading
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 4:53pm | 556Read More...The spot and derivatives exchange OKEx is launching options trading for digital assets later this month as part of an upgrade to its platform architecture. The product addition will help traders take advantage of volatility, hedge risk and discover prices, Enzo Villani, OKEx's...
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The Collapsing VIX And The Rise Of New Options Trader
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 12:50pm | 593Read More...Traditionally, professional options traders choose to utilize options because of the advantage provided by volatility. Volatility traders (“vol traders”), those who are always selling options to take advantage of the convergence of volatility and Theta (time) decay, are seen as the smartest guys...
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Option Exercise: American Versus European Style
Friday, July 13, 2012 - 2:05pm | 620Read More...Options traders are most aware of American style exercise. Under this system, which is applicable to listed stock options, option owners are allowed to exercise at any time between opening a position and exercise date. But there is a second kind of option exercise, which is European style....
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Flaws in the Black-Scholes Pricing Model
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 5:42pm | 840Read More...A turning point in the evolution of options trading was in the year 1973, when professors Fischer Black and Myron Scholes write a paper titled, "Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities." This was viewed as a significant effort at articulating pricing of options and corporate bonds based on the...
