Stock and options markets have both seen consistent increases in liquidity over the past 30 years as automation reduces costs, improves position hedging for professionals and expands accessibility to ...

Explore the benefits of strip options: a market-neutral, bearish strategy with profit potential in both upward and downward ...

An option is a contract that allows the buyer to buy or sell shares of stock at an agreed-upon price. Investors can get outsized returns by using options instead of simply owning stocks. Be forewarned ...

Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, August 27. Last week, COO and fearless leader Katie Schaeffer was chatting with me about our latest product, In-the-Money Countdown ...

Selling and buying options with zero days to expiration can be risky. There's a strategy for trading options that's generating quite a bit of buzz: trading an option contract with zero days to ...

Options trading is the practice of buying or selling options contracts. Whether you buy or sell depends on how you think a stock will perform over a specific period of time. Many, or all, of the ...

Options trading is the buying and selling of options contracts in the market, usually on a public exchange. Options are often the next level of security that new investors learn about following their ...

Picking the right options trading strategy for you will depend on what direction you think a stock’s price will go and your capacity to absorb losses. Buying an option, or “going long,” will have less ...

In options trading, assessing intrinsic and extrinsic value can help determine an option's price. Intrinsic value shows the profit from immediate exercise, while extrinsic value accounts for factors ...

Tesla, Inc.'s stock price is disconnected from its fundamental value. The high daily volume of options trading could be driving the stock price higher. I explain here how this works and why it makes ...

Retail investor trading in options took off during the COVID pandemic, and in 2020, retail investors accounted for more than $250 billion of total single-name option volume. With the meme stock frenzy ...