Options are among the most popular vehicles for traders, because their price can move fast, making — or losing — a lot of money quickly. Options strategies can range from quite simple to very complex, ...

With earnings ramping up, we thought we would revisit our discussion about options and how investors might use them during this quarterly reporting season. If you haven't read our prior work on the ...

Learning how to trade options helps expand your trading choices. It’s a powerful tool you can use to speculate on and hedge against market moves. But how do you know which strategy to use in a certain ...

All week, we've been unpacking options strategies with cool names. Next up, the iron butterfly is a flexible options strategy that can be placed using call or put options, but each trade's risk and ...

Options trading isn’t exactly a walk in the park. If you’re not careful, one bad trade can wipe out your portfolio faster than you can say “covered call.” That’s where virtual options trading ...

Picking the right options trading strategy for you will depend on what direction you think a stock’s price will go and your ...

Once you know the basics of how options work, putting options trading strategies in place marks the next step. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...