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 ...

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 ...

Exchange-traded funds have been praised for their improved tax efficiency over mutual funds, but the ETF tax advantage only applied to stock funds. Until now. Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF BOXX ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...