It's a terrifying time to be a market maker these days. Recently, the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index for April plunged to 50.4, its lowest reading since June 2022. It also ...

Let’s just get down to it: market makers badly mispriced Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) options, specifically bear put spreads, creating a phenomenon I have termed “risk inversion.” Such undercurrents rarely ...

As it turns out, you can't just bend the market to your will, even if you are the most powerful person in the world. During the midweek session, Advanced Micro Devics’ stock managed to close at $96.84 ...

It’s perhaps the greatest conspiracy in high finance, a concept so wild that many — perhaps most — go through their entire lives without ever realizing it. And this conspiracy is that concepts such as ...

While index funds provide broad market exposure to credit and interest rate (duration) risk, they do not take advantage of a persistent market inefficiency called the volatility risk premium. OVT uses ...