Options provide us the right to buy or sell a stock at a specified price at any time on or before the expiration date; and options traders typically profit by the increase in value on long positions, or the decrease…

Ever wonder how the price of options are determined? When it’s weeks or months out, it can be significantly different than just the difference between the strike price and the current stock price. And even when it’s OTM (Out of…

There are two types of Bull spread options strategies:  Bull call and Bull put.  These spreads purchase and sell either calls or puts simultaneously at different strike prices, with the same expiration date.  In bull spreads, regardless of whether it…

One of the big things to change in stock trading in the past ten years is the proliferation of new trading platforms. What used to be an activity limited to professional brokers is now available to retail investors of many…