As new traders flood the market, a return to options basics may help novices understand the fundamentals of options trading. To better assist them, we will be running posts diving into the finer ...
Learning how to trade options helps expand your trading choices. It’s a powerful tool you can use to speculate on and hedge against market moves. But how do you know which strategy to use in a certain ...
Markets don’t move in straight lines. Even the strongest trends can stall or reverse without warning, which is why many traders focus as much on managing risk as they do on finding opportunities. One ...
The public equity market is trading very precariously, with peak earnings growth, ultra-low interest rates, peak consumer demand, and accommodative monetary/fiscal policies, all now ostensibly in the ...
How Put Options Work With a put option, you can sell a stock at a specific price within a given time frame. For example, suppose you buy a stock at $14 per share. You expect the price to go up, but if ...
The Crude Oil futures and options markets are the most liquid and actively traded global commodities contracts in the world. With Weekly Options on WTI Crude Oil Futures expiring on Friday each week, ...
Hedging is a technique used to reduce or fully mitigate a risk exposure. Hedging is a commonplace practice in business, finance, investment management, and even everyday life. In a financial setting, ...
The crypto bear market in 2018, which saw the price of bitcoin drop by over 73 percent and those of altcoins drop by over 90 percent, made an excellent case for the need to hedge digital asset ...