Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and ...

I've written here and elsewhere about what I call the “Dog Collar” strategy. That's just my “pet name” for a typical option collar strategy, where a stock or ETF is surrounded by a covered call option ...

While many investors view options trading as a short-term strategy, it can also play an important role in a long-term ...

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 ...

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 ...

Option pricing is calculated using the Black-Scholes model, which takes four influential factors into account: the price of an underlying stock (assuming constant drift and volatility), an option’s ...

Implied volatility, time decay, and delta all play crucial roles in option prices As you may well be aware, it's very common for option players to close out their trades without ever touching the ...

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