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 ...

Explore how to buy option spreads. This approach reduces risk by selling a less expensive option and buying another, aiming ...

An options strategy called a "box spread" is gaining steam by the billions as an alternative to Treasury bills and traditional loans. The tactic gets its name from the four-sided structure of options ...

Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF earns a Buy rating for its innovative, tax-efficient approach to short-term interest rate exposure. BOXX uses box spreads with European-style SPX options to ...

Learn the fundamentals of options, how spreads work, and the key risks that traders rely on. Discover the essentials to ...

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 – ...

BOXX has gathered $9.4B in assets since December 2022 using S&P 500 box spreads to deliver 4.1% yield. The fund’s returns track short-term rates through options arbitrage instead of holding Treasury ...

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 ...