How to Use Option Open Interest and Implied Volatility to Find Trades



View Tek’s whole beginner options course: http://www.informedtrades.com/f115/ Practice options trading with a free practice trading account: http://bit.ly/apextrader Hello and welcome In this video, we will look at using Option Open Interest along with Implied Volatility to measure market sentiment. Option Open Interest is one of the key sentiment indicators that traders look at to help gauge the next step for price. If you remember from my overview video, Option Open Interest is the number of outstanding option contracts or positions in the market. Let's look at using open interest if the price of the stock or ETF is in an up or down trend. If Open Interest is increasing and Implied Volatility is increasing, it implies that the current trend will continue. An increase in Open Interest means that there is an increase in contracts for that particular stock or ETF, which means that there is more money flowing into that market. An increase in implied Volatility means that the market is stating that there is an increased chance that price will move further from its current location. If Open Interest is increasing and Implied Volatility is decreasing, it implies that the current trend may level off. An increase in Open Interest means that there is still an increase in contracts for that particular stock or ETF, which means that there is more money flowing into the market. However, the decrease in implied Volatility means that the market is stating that there the chance of price moving further is decreasing. If Open Interest is decreasing and Implied Volatility is decreasing, it implies that the current trend may halt or reverse. The decrease in Open Interest means that the number of outstanding contracts is going down from traders closing out of their positions, and the decrease in implied Volatility means that the market is stating that the chance of price moving further is decreasing. Let's look at using open interest if the price of the stock or ETF is in a range. As price moves toward the edge of the range, if Open Interest is increasing and Implied Volatility is increasing, it implies that price may break out of the range. An increase in Open Interest means that there is an increase in contracts for that particular stock or ETF, which means that there is more money flowing into the market. An increase in implied Volatility means that the market is stating that there is an increased chance that price will move further from its current location. If price is nearing the top or the bottom part of the range, and Open Interest is starting to decrease, it suggests that price may bounce off the wall of the range and reverse as this shows that traders are closing out of their current positions. If Implied Volatility is also decreasing, this helps confirm the possibility that price will bounce off the walls of the range and reverse. So that is using Option Open Interest and Implied Volatility as sentiment indicators. I hope that you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching.

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