The trading floor at the Optiver VOF headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Thursday, March 27, 2025. Optiver, the Amsterdam-based firm that's a loose Dutch portmanteau of "options trader" plans ...

Learn how to trade weekly options, understand key differences from monthly options, and use smart strategies to boost short-term trading success. Options trading is taking the stock market by storm.

Options trading volumes are booming again in 2025, as the industry heads toward what would be a sixth straight year of record activity. One subset of the market has been particularly active of late: ...

An option is a financial instrument whose value is tied to an underlying asset; this is known as a derivative. Instead of buying an asset, such as company stock, outright, an options contract allows ...