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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interest rate derivatives—financial investments whose value depends on interest rates—provide useful information about the risk of short-term rates falling again to the zero lower bound. According to ...

As sophisticated and retail investors rally around the possibility of bitcoin's BTC $90,214.84 price surging to at least $100,000 by the year-end, the options market tied to the cryptocurrency assigns ...

Traders make most investments with the expectation that the price will go up. They make some with the hope that the price will move down. Unfortunately, it is often the case that the price doesn't do ...