Capital requirements often stop many beginners in their tracks. You want to trade, but then you hear a dozen different numbers. One person says you need a small fortune. Another says you can start ...

10/30 SMA Cross Over – When the 10-day simple moving average (SMA) line crosses the 30-day SMA line. This is a cue to enter or exit a trade because it shows the current trend is reversing. It is also ...

Schaeffer's Senior VP of Research Todd Salamone breaks downs the head-and-shoulders chart pattern One of the most popular patterns used by technical traders is the head-and-shoulders (H&S) formation.

A viral Reddit post reveals how risky options trading pushed a well-paid professional into massive debt, sparking fresh ...

Many investors shy away from using options to grow their wealth, believing stories they've seen in the movies about fast money traders making - and losing - millions. There's just one problem: It's ...

Day trading options is a popular strategy for traders who seek to take advantage of short-term market fluctuations. Options are financial derivatives that give the holder the right, but not the ...

All Star Charts' chief options strategist Sean McLaughlin joins Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre, who also hosts Yahoo Finance's Stocks in Translation podcast, to outline the basics ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Making wealth creation easy, accessible and transparent. Options allow you to make money in the stock market regardless of whether ...

Investors in Pattern Energy Group Inc (Symbol: PEGI) saw new options become available this week, for the March 2020 expiration. One of the key inputs that goes into the price an option buyer is ...

Chris Davis is a Managing Editor on the Investing team. As a writer, he covered the stock market, investing strategies and investment accounts, and as a spokesperson, he appeared on NBC Bay Area and ...

Pete Najarian noticed unusual options activity in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) for this week’s $117-strike calls on Friday. On Wednesday, institutions continued to hammer call contracts ...

Options trading is the practice of buying or selling options contracts. Whether you buy or sell depends on how you think a stock will perform over a specific period of time. Many, or all, of the ...