Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The Cboe Volatility index is trading at its lowest level since the U.S. war with Iran began, a sign that investors are ...

The Schwab Trading Activity Index ("STAX") rose to 43.69 in the four-week period ended Aug. 24, 2025, from 41.79 in the prior month, but still ranked "moderate low" compared with historic averages, ...

Volatility is not a market malfunction. It is a feature of markets that periodically reassess fundamentals under genuine ...

CNN’s Fear & Greed Index is a way to gauge stock market movements and whether stocks are fairly priced. The index uses seven market indicators to help answer the question: What emotion is driving the ...

For years, I’ve believed that volatility is the primary driver of investment. It’s an inarticulate encapsulation of a capital markets theory, but when all the rhetoric is boiled away, volatility ...

The grinding market price action over the past trading week is mainly attributable to seasonal year-end implied volatility selling during the holiday-shortened trading week. The one thing the rally is ...

Crypto CFD prices can surge before social feeds even refresh. Index CFDs mirror global sentiment minute by minute. The margin ...

CoinShares filed for three Bitcoin volatility ETFs: a base, leveraged, and inverse fund. The funds could begin trading in early June 2026.

Unprecedented turbulence at a pair of quantitative hedge funds managed by the industry pioneer Renaissance Technologies is causing the firm to consider adjusting its trading models, according to ...

Learn about futures trading, along with how contracts work, key market factors, risks, and potential benefits, and how ...

The investment seeks to provide total return. The fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing its assets in futures contracts ...