Interest rates affect the pricing of at-the-money options. Rising rates now make ATM call options more expensive than puts. An option collar of stock by selling a call and buying a put is more ...

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Call options are a type of option that increases in value when a stock rises. They’re the best-known kind of option, and they allow the owner to lock in a price to buy a specific stock by a specific ...

What Is a Strap Option? A strap option is a market neutral options trading strategy with a bullish emphasis. That means it offers profit potential regardless of the direction of the underlying ...

Buy-write ETFs like LQDW and HYGW historically underperformed their underlying ETFs due to mechanical monthly covered Call strategies. LQDW and HYGW's make sense in very few scenarios, in most ...

A snapshot of the top strategies to make money from a highly volatile market Heading into the new year, traders expecting more volatile markets may want to refresh their approach. Discover the top ...

One of the common beliefs in the option industry is that over a long period of time option sellers will profit. They will hit some speed bumps along the way, but option prices are expected to ...

Staying neutral can be difficult, whether in lunchroom arguments at work, watching a battle between rival sports teams or trading stocks in a volatile market. But one of the advantages of markets is ...

The "Greeks" are an essential toolkit for options investors and traders. These mathematical calculations, each named after a ...