On the latest Market Mashup, Patrick is back with author, analyst, and options trader extraordinaire Don Fishback to discuss his work on options valuation and probability over the years. Don shares ...

Patrick: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Schaeffer's Market Mash up as promised I have a very, very special guest with me today. Author, analyst, world renowned options, expert, Don Fishback ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. The plot of at-the-money Put and Call prices versus expiration dates roughly describes a horizontal parabolic ...

I recently discussed the ability to use implied volatility to calculate the probability of a successful outcome for any given option trade. To review briefly, the essential concepts a trader must ...

While the remarkable rise of gold and silver this year has dramatically elevated the underlying mining complex, the market is a cruelly chaotic and non-linear environment. As such, a steep correction ...

This paper documents that riskier firms with higher idiosyncratic volatility grant more stock options to nonexecutive employees. Standard models in the literature cannot easily explain this pattern; a ...

Options are a bet on where stocks won't go, not where they will go. Options provide a statistical edge, unlike stocks which boil down to a binary event or a 50:50 probability of success. Options ...

The dangers of zero day options trading highlighted through the Captain Condor wipeout reveal the fragility of frequent small wins that can be wiped out by a single large ...

The great thing about options is their versatility. Traders who learn how to trade options can create strategies that meet their particular criteria for risk, reward and probability of success with a ...