Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Value
Every option premium is these two components added together, and knowing the split tells you what you are actually buying — a bet on movement, or a leveraged position in the underlying.
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0DTE vs Weekly Options: Holding Period, Decay, and Gamma Compared
0DTE and weekly options are often treated as interchangeable short-dated trades. They are not. The difference in time remaining changes the decay profile, the gamma exposure, and how much room you have to be wrong, in ways that make one far more forgiving than the other. This is the direct comparison across the three dimensions that actually separate them.
How Theta Decay Accelerates Through the Final Session
If gamma is why a 0DTE position swings violently, theta is why simply waiting costs you. Time decay on expiration day is not a steady drip; it is a nonlinear erosion that behaves differently for at-the-money and out-of-the-money options, and misjudging it is how traders get the timing of their entries and exits exactly wrong. This is the honest, moneyness-aware version of the decay curve.