The process was usually called water witching or dowsing, and this young woman had a proven track record working with local well diggers and drillers. We were excited about being out in the ...

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 ...

Investopedia / Joules Garcia The triple witching hour is the last sixty minutes of the trading day on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December, when contracts for stock index ...

Triple witching days can lead to higher volume and volatility. Traders shouldn't put too much stock in intraday swings, for this reason. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, was up 1.5% to 13.48.

Friday is what's known as a triple witching day–the once-a-quarter phenomenon when stock options, stock index futures, and stock index options all expire on the same day. Some investors are ...