Friday is what's known as a triple witching day–the once-a-quarter ... But the Cboe Volatility Index, a Wall Street "fear gauge" that trades under the ticker VIX and tracks S&P 500 options ...

Stocks rallied to record highs on Thursday ahead of one of Wall Street's scariest-sounding events, set for Friday: a triple ...

Be prepared for some weird trading. The third Friday of March, June, September, and December are called triple witching days because stock options, stock index futures, and stock index options all ...

Don't be spooked by this quarterly phenomenon—triple witching simply refers to the simultaneous expiration of three different types of derivative contracts. Triple witching sounds like something ...

On Wall Street, greed was glamorized ... to the combustible mix in October 1987 was the quarterly phenomenon of triple witching, when three different types of options contracts expired.

A new Wall Street Journal report notes that Qualcomm (QCOM ... Friday’s market close marked the end of a “triple witching” session where $5.1 trillion in stock index futures, stock index options, and ...