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A seemingly large percentage of options traders don't fully understand put/call parity and how options are priced. This causes them to lose money trading. This article is intended to help traders ...

Put options are a type of option that increases in value as a stock falls. A put allows the owner to lock in a predetermined price to sell a specific stock, while put sellers agree to buy the stock at ...

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You’ve been looking to start another income stream and have your eye on a particular security. One problem: You don’t have the cash to buy it. So you’re considering diving into a short put options ...

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 ...

With those ever-present forces of algorithmic trading programmed to react to every single word spoken on Fed day, the S&P 500 ...

Trading options can be a complicated process as a lot of options strategies are available and traders need to evaluate all of the possible routes ahead of executing a trade. The beauty of options ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Michael is a former senior editor of investing and trading products for ...

The first four months of the year have offered a valuable reminder of diversification’s benefits. After years of underperformance from non-US stocks and bonds relative to US growth equities, a ...

Stock options are leveraged instruments that derive their value from an underlying security, such as a stock. This makes them different from stocks, which are perpetual in nature and represent an ...