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 ...

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 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 ...

Implied volatilities jumped higher across asset classes last week as Middle East tensions escalated. The surge in oil implied volatility last week was twice the increase in realized vol, as the ...

LONDON & NEW YORK & AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of technology and data, today announced that ICE Brent, the largest crude oil ...

President Donald Trump's auto and retaliatory tariffs on key U.S. trading partners are contributing to market volatility. Trump also recently noted he will impose 25% tariffs on imports from countries ...

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 ...

With no breakthrough in Geneva and tensions simmering, Brent crude holds near $72 as traders brace for the next move.

Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied volatility suggest that investors in the underlying stocks are expecting a big ...

Anyone who trades crude oil futures has seen it happen. Price sells off hard into a round number, stalls, and then snaps violently higher. Or oil grinds higher all morning, only to reverse sharply mid ...