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.

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 ...

A bull call spread is an options strategy used to profit from moderate increases in the underlying asset’s price while limiting risk. It involves buying a call option at a lower strike price and ...

Amid the turmoil of President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day, an underlying concept has soared to the forefront: the chaos represents a perfect opportunity to trade simple multi-leg options strategies, ...

Let’s just get down to it: market makers badly mispriced Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) options, specifically bear put spreads, creating a phenomenon I have termed “risk inversion.” Such undercurrents rarely ...

An options strategy called a "box spread" is gaining steam by the billions as an alternative to Treasury bills and traditional loans. Processing Content The tactic gets its name from the four-sided ...

The Indian stock market benchmark indices recovered from day’s low and traded flat with a negative bias on Tuesday. Selling in IT, metals and pharma stocks weighed on sentiment amid weak global market ...

While index funds provide broad market exposure to credit and interest rate (duration) risk, they do not take advantage of a persistent market inefficiency called the volatility risk premium. OVT uses ...

As it turns out, you can't just bend the market to your will, even if you are the most powerful person in the world. During the midweek session, Advanced Micro Devics’ stock managed to close at $96.84 ...

It's a terrifying time to be a market maker these days. Recently, the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index for April plunged to 50.4, its lowest reading since June 2022. It also ...