January 2017. 1  In January 2017, for the eleventh consecutive month, dry natural gas production decreased year-to-year from the same month a year ago. The preliminary level for dry natural gas production in January 2017 was 2,193 billion cubic feet (Bcf), or 70.7 Bcf/day. This level was a 2.6 Bcf/day (3.6%) decrease from the January 2016 level of 73.4 Bcf/day.
Low Volatility... Option Volatility is a measure of risk/uncertainty. The more volatile a stock is, the higher the options premium will be. The difficulty of predicting the behavior of a volatile stock commands a higher price for the option because of the additional risk/reward it poses. High volatility: higher option premium. Low volatility: lower option premium. Option volatility is broken down into two components: 1  Historical Volatility: tells us how volatile something has been in the past.  Implied Volatility: is the market's view on how volatile things will be in the future.
A Vanilla option is an option with standard features like a fixed strike price, expiration date and a single underlying asset. The option is effective at the current date and when exercised, its payoff equals the difference between the value of the underlying asset and the strike price. It is also known whether the option is a call or a put at the time the option is sold. The vanilla option is the simplest type of option, with a fixed strike, expiry date and notional amount. It can be either a European or an American style option, and it can be either a call option or a put option. The payout of a vanilla option is the difference between the strike and the underlying asset price at exercise or expiration. By Barry Norman, Investors Trading Academy