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Stocks with Notable Option Volatility: AMC, FNGR, and SIRI

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Options Newsman wrote a column · Jul 20, 2023 18:36
Implied volatility is a measure of the market's expectation of the potential price movements of the stock in the future. Here are the stocks with the most notable implied volatility today.
Here are the notable stocks with the highest implied volatility. The $AMC Entertainment(AMC.US)$ $FingerMotion(FNGR.US)$ and $Sirius XM(SIRI.US)$ have the highest implied volatility of all stocks with a market cap of over 100 million.
Shares of $Sirius XM(SIRI.US)$ surged 42.26% during the previous trading session, leading to an increase in options activity for the stock. Option volume reached 264.34K, with an IV percentile of 94%. The current implied volatility is at a staggering 188%, indicating high demand for option contracts and heightened expectations for future price movements.
The 1-year high of 188% IV suggests that investors expect significant fluctuations in Sirius XM's stock price in the coming year. Furthermore, the 1-day IV change of 107.3% indicates that there was a sudden shift in investor sentiment regarding the stock. It remains to be seen whether the surge in options activity will translate into a continued rise in share prices or whether it reflects a hedging strategy among investors who are cautious about potential volatility in Sirius XM's stock.
Here is the IV Ranking of the day:
Stocks with Notable Option Volatility: AMC, FNGR, and SIRI
The chart only includes any company with market cap of over 100 million and share price of over$2.5.
Top Option Volatility Change:
Stocks with Notable Option Volatility: AMC, FNGR, and SIRI
Conclusion And Risk Management
Option implied volatility is a measure of the market's expectation for how much an asset's price will fluctuate in the future, as implied by the prices of options on that asset.
Options are financial contracts that give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset at a predetermined price and time. The price of an option is influenced by various factors, including the current price of the underlying asset, the strike price, the time to expiration, and the implied volatility.
Implied volatility represents the level of uncertainty or risk that market participants perceive in the future price movements of the underlying asset. When investors expect greater volatility, they may be more willing to pay a higher price for options to help hedge their risk, which leads to higher implied volatility.
Implied volatility is usually expressed as a percentage and is calculated using an options pricing model, such as the Black-Scholes model. Traders and investors use implied volatility to assess the attractiveness of options prices, to identify potential mispricings, and to manage their risk exposure.
Source: Benzinga, Dow Jones, CNBC
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