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.

A bear call spread is an options strategy where you sell a call option at one strike price and buy another at a higher strike price for the same stock and expiration. This approach caps both potential ...

TLTW is a buy-write ETF which implements a covered Call strategy in TLT. With a mechanical one-month Call option, TLTW ...

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 ...

Let’s just get down to it: market makers badly mispriced Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) options, specifically bear put spreads, creating a phenomenon I have termed “risk inversion.” Such undercurrents rarely ...

While index funds provide broad market exposure to credit and interest rate (duration) risk, they do not take advantage of a persistent market inefficiency called the volatility risk premium. OVT uses ...

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An options strategy called a "box spread" is gaining steam by the billions as an alternative to Treasury bills and traditional loans. Processing Content The tactic gets its name from the four-sided ...

It's a terrifying time to be a market maker these days. Recently, the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index for April plunged to 50.4, its lowest reading since June 2022. It also ...

A bull call spread is an options strategy used to profit from moderate increases in the underlying asset’s price while limiting risk. It involves buying a call option at a lower strike price and ...