Explore 10 essential options strategies every investor should know, from basic calls and puts to advanced spreads, risks, rewards, and real-world use cases explained.

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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 ...

An options strangle is a strategy to profit from price swings in either direction of an underlying asset. How does an options strangle work and what are the risks and rewards involved? Benzinga ...

A straddle can be considered a volatility spread, as the trader who puts on the straddle is speculating on the volatility, or degree of movement of the underlying, not necessarily the direction of ...

The S&P 500 Index has been very quiet in recent weeks. In fact, the broad-market benchmark hasn't made a 1% daily move in either direction since July 8, the longest streak of its kind since May 2014.

Straddles allow traders to cover both sides of a play while still swinging for triple-digit gains Trading options can be a complicated process as a lot of options strategies are available and traders ...

On reading Dominick Paoloni and Patrick Hennessy’s article on selling options from the blog at IPS Strategic Capital I decided to research the subject. Their article states that "the edge has flipped ...

Last week’s discussion on the “Robinhood” options trades was popular with traders, many of whom wanted to know how to construct a trade for crazy underlying price movement and high implied volatility.

If you're new to options trading, you might be confused by the many terms, such as vertical options, straddles, and strangles. The following article will introduce you to each type and explain why ...

The severity of risk in trading depends on the preferences and objectives of the trader. Buying options tends to be less risky than selling options from the perspective of a trader who's making a ...