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Individual investors have more investment options than they often realize: namely stock options. Options allow you to make money whether the stock market is going up, down or sideways because, just as ...

Very often the success of an options trade will be strongly influenced by how carefully the entry and exit prices are negotiated. The gain or loss of $.10 per share in a stock trade is usually ...

Options on an index like the Nasdaq-100 (ticker symbol NDX) are incredibly useful. They can be used to express nearly any market outlook from very bullish to moderately bullish, to sideways, to any ...

What does it mean when an option is "assigned" to you? There is a lot of technical jargon that is specific to the options market. For a beginner who is aiming to learn how to trade options, ...

Trading stock options requires you to add a few new terms to your personal investing lexicon. Below are a few of the basic option terms that might be unfamiliar to rookies. For more information on ...

Call options are a type of option that increases in value when a stock rises. They’re the best-known kind of option, and they allow the owner to lock in a price to buy a specific stock by a specific ...

In our last column, we began to explore the wealth of information hiding in the Option Chain. We defined the columns and we went through the information to be had from the "symbol," "last," "change," ...