Activity in oil options suggest traders responded swiftly as hostilities between Israel and Iran escalated last week. Demand for out-of-the-money call options tied to oil spiked, sending implied ...

Stuart Kaiser, head of U.S. equity trading strategy at Citi, quantifies just how much of the tail risks have been taking out of oil. On March 27, when the U.S. Oil Fund was trading above $124, options ...

Short-dated and micro WTI options are revolutionizing risk management, offering precise and cost-effective solutions for traders of all sizes. The confluence of improved analytics, trading platforms, ...

Oil prices keep rising, now over $105. As a result, ConocoPhillips stock is higher. One play is to collect income by selling short COP put options every month. This play works well for value investors ...

Oil prices have rebounded sharply on geopolitical risk despite no meaningful supply losses. Call Options Go Wild as Brent Traders Bet Big on Chaos - Iran protests and the increasing probability that ...

Oil price moves aren’t random, and sharp reversals and stalls are often driven by options positioning and mechanical hedging flows, not news or fundamentals. Producer hedging and dealer gamma hedging ...

A fresh wave of bullishness is washing through the oil-options market as traders protect against the risk to supplies in a region that pumps a third of the world’s oil from mounting attacks between ...

Oil traders are lining up protection against a spike in prices at a rate never seen before on concern that protests in Iran will escalate and result in a disruption to supply. Monday saw the ...