Spread trading is a common tactic when dealing with options, and there are many spread strategies designed to pursue profit while mitigating risk. At the nexus of these strategies is the box spread. A ...

The Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF allows retail investors to earn Treasury Bill-like returns from the options market by buying 'box spreads'. The BOXX ETF is a short-term cash management tool that ...

The Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF is a unique ETF that mimics 1-3 month T-bills using a complex box spread strategy. BOXX potentially offers tax benefits compared to traditional T-bills. I rate ...

Houston, we have liftoff. Treasury bill and other fixed-income yields soared past 5% in April 2023 and have stayed there, with the 1-year Treasury bill reaching 5.4% by September. This has sparked a ...

CHICAGO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Unusual volume in options on the Standard & Poor's 500 index <.SPX> with strike prices more than 50 percent below the index's current level has tongues wagging in the ...

We have spent a lot of time talking about ticks, spreads and trading costs in the equities markets. Today, we take a look at options trading. As we know, options markets are very different to stocks – ...

Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, September 17. While we’ve covered 0DTE options on our site and in this space before, we thought it’d be educational to share a ...

In simple terms, a spread is an option strategy, or position, that is composed of both long option contracts and short option contracts on the same underlying security (or index). The two sides of the ...