Jared Woodard is the principal of Condor Options, a research and trading firm in New York. With over a decade of experience trading options, futures, and equities, he has been quoted in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Financial Times Alphaville.
Woodard is the author of Options and the Volatility Risk Premium and Iron Condor Spread Strategies, both published by FT Press. He is a registered commodity trading advisor at Clinamen Financial Group, where he developed the VIX Portfolio Hedging (VXH) Strategy. He is a founding and contributing editor of Expiring Monthly: The Option Traders Journal, and is a Ph.D. candidate at Fordham University.
| Jan 04, 2013 | 9:45 AM EST
Volatility traders can find some even more interesting situations by broadening their scope.
| Dec 14, 2012 | 11:55 AM EST
Economic data and market indicators are pointing to a real and hopefully permanent change in the tone of the market.
| Dec 06, 2012 | 10:00 AM EST
For experienced and institutional traders, one way to play this implied volatility spike would be to sell futures on the Nasdaq 100 Volatility Index.
| Sep 30, 2012 | 6:30 PM EDT
Between short-sellers and options traders, who is more informed? A recent study has tackled this question.
| Jan 05, 2012 | 12:00 PM EST
Let's take a look at delta and how it can help simplify portfolio management.
| Dec 15, 2011 | 2:45 PM EST
Let's look at how options expiration can influence the overall market as well as specific equities, and then consider how investors should deal with these tendencies.
