While many are familiar with buying stocks in hopes of profiting, the strategies for benefiting from price declines are often less understood. Two powerful tools in the bearish (pessimistic) ...

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 ...

The S&P 500 eked out nominal gains during the first session of the second quarter, outperforming its tech-heavy counterpart Nasdaq 100 on the resurgence of momentum for energy shares. Yet, the modest ...

A short put spread is a neutral-to-bullish options strategy that is usually initiated when the trader believes the underlying stock will hold above a firm layer of support. Also known as a "credit ...

This popular technique combines a short put and a short call spread Brian Dolan's decades of experience as a trader and strategist have exposed him to all manner of global macro-economic market data, ...

Welcome to this week’s installment of “The Short Interest Report” – The Fly’s weekly recap of short interest trends among some of the most widely followed high-short-float stocks. Using the data from ...

Amazon (US:AMZN) shares tumbled almost 50% this year through Friday, suffering a fate similar to other long time tech darlings and attracting short sellers as the sector reprices. The shorts profited ...

Credit spreads might seem intimidating, but they're a lower-risk way to sell put premium A short put spread is a neutral-to-bullish options strategy that is usually initiated when the trader believes ...

Amazon (US:AMZN) shares tumbled almost 50% this year through Friday, suffering a fate similar to other long time tech darlings and attracting short sellers as the sector reprices. The shorts profited ...