Option pricing is calculated using the Black-Scholes model, which takes four influential factors into account: the price of an underlying stock (assuming constant drift and volatility), an option’s ...

Today, a large volume of out-of-the-money (OTM) call options in Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) highlights the underlying value of TSLA stock. We recently wrote in a Barchart article that TSLA could be worth over ...

Unusual market activity is often the first sign that big changes are coming to a stock. Professional traders and large institutions frequently use the options market to place high-conviction bets ...

Alibaba stock surged 29% since my last article, partially due to the release of Qwen2.5-Max, an AI model outperforming GPT-4o and DeepSeek in key metrics. My previous Buy rating was partially based on ...

An option price is the value of an option contract. The option price is determined by the extrinsic and intrinsic value of the option contract. Options are contracts that allow investors to buy or ...

Investors in Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (Symbol: CTSH) saw new options become available this week, for the February 2026 expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has ...

What is a call option, anyway? A call option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to purchase an asset (in this case, Bitcoin) at a predetermined price before a specific date. If the ...

Option pricing and stochastic control methods constitute a vital intersection of quantitative finance and applied mathematics, offering robust frameworks for evaluating derivative securities and ...