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 ...

Options traders employ several trading strategies, but they all have the same objective: to make a profit. It’s possible to make money with options trading, and knowing how to calculate profitability ...

For well over a decade, the institutional municipal market has been dominated by high 5% bonds callable at 100 in year 10. The premium market price corresponding to the artificially high coupon ...

Long call and covered call approaches both involve call options, but they serve very different purposes in a portfolio. A long call is typically a speculative strategy, allowing investors to profit ...