Explore 10 essential options strategies every investor should know, from basic calls and puts to advanced spreads, risks, rewards, and real-world use cases explained.

After a wild month for the market, investors are sitting on a heap of bullish call options that will expire on Friday as monthly contracts for May come due. Options dealers' hedging of these long ...

With thousands of tickers available and dozens upon dozens of filters in stocks and options screeners, it can be overwhelming to find your next options trade. Yes, the option to access these tools is ...

Another earnings season is upon us and with that is an expected increase in volatility. With such big moves coming on earnings reports, how can an investor participate while managing risk? How can you ...

The options market has been buzzing over the last two weeks as traders have started to position themselves for a larger shift in stock prices. Historically, monitoring activity in the options market ...

Option pricing is calculated using the Black-Scholes model, which takes four influential factors into account: the price of an underlying stock (assuming constant drift and volatility), an option’s ...

What Is a Stock Option? A stock option is a contract giving its holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a stock at a given price before a specific date. There are two main types of ...