Learn the basics of options trading, what calls and puts are, how options work, and strategies to hedge or speculate with practical examples for beginners.

Foreign Exchange (FX) options trading has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, moving increasingly towards electronic platforms. This shift, driven by institutional clients such as ...

Learn how the forex market operates across the Asian, London, and New York sessions, and how traders use session overlaps to ...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is enjoying phenomenal success in its foreign exchange business. Total FX volume grew more than 50% in 2004 and e-volumes were up 128% from 2003. Among these FX ...

The offering works from price discovery through to execution, booking, and risk management within the FX options market – combining SpectrAxe’s price discovery and execution CLOB with OSTTRA’s ...

Centralised trading venue OptAxe has received FCA authorisation to operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF) for axe-driven FX options trading. OptAxe stated that it is launching the new venue to ...

It has been an interesting year for options traders. In January, 360T launched its UK-based multilateral trading facility (MTF), supporting FX options as well as swaps, non-deliverable swaps, forwards ...

Lee Beng Hong, CEO of SGX FX and head of wholesale markets & platforms at Singapore Exchange (SGX Group), said the company would like to grow electronic trading of currency options as average daily ...

Emerging market currency activity grew at double the pace of developed market currencies from April 2022 to April 2025.

Cboe Global Markets closed 2025 with another year of record-setting activity, underscoring how derivatives, equities and foreign exchange continue to benefit ...

Forex, or the foreign exchange market, is where trillions of dollars change hands daily through currency transactions. Successful trading in this dynamic market requires not only theoretical knowledge ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. OptAxe was launched to address fundamental shortcomings in FX options ...