Derivatives like options can be risky securities to trade especially if you don’t have a strategy. For many traders during the pandemic years, options were used to speculate on volatile stocks. But ...

From the covered call to the iron butterfly, here are 10 of the most popular strategies that every investor can use to their benefit in options trading.

Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. A covered call is an options ...

Selling covered calls is an options trading technique that can generate income from your stock holdings. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

While covered call exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are widely used by investors, they do not come without risk. Here’s why I’m personally staying on the sidelines – and one of my favorite options trading ...

Before we get into the nuts and bolts of options trading, it's critical to start with a basic definition of options. These derivatives are contracts that allow the holder to buy or sell shares of the ...

When Jim Van Meerten, author of Barchart’s Chart of the Day newsletter, was asked about trading options vs. shares, his ...