Options strategies can seem complicated, but that's because they offer you a great deal of flexibility in tailoring your potential returns and risks to your specific needs. One interesting strategy ...

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.

How to profit from a big move in either direction With earnings season right around the corner, options players might want to look into employing a long straddle strategy. A long straddle is typically ...

We recently published a performance review of at-the-money (ATM) NDX straddles with between one and five days left to expiration. One finding was that consistent sellers of 3-Day, 4-Day, and 5-Day NDX ...

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 ...

Mark Sebastian of Option Pit doesn't like Apple stock as a long-term trade, but is bullish on the volatility for a near-term strategy. looked like a repeat of the mid-to-late 1980s for some time. The ...

Option investors have a unique ability to profit in the market no matter which direction a stock's price moves. A straddle is a great example of this kind of strategy. A straddle is market neutral ...

There’s a news report coming out. Do you straddle it or strangle it? It can seem very confusing trying to learn the terminology. During The Diagnostic Trading Hour on August 13, 2014, the terms were ...

Tesla shares surged last week when it released surprisingly strong delivery figures — so much so that the stock-price gain was nearly twice as large as its straddle cost. An option straddle involves ...

Options strategies can seem complicated, but that's because they offer you a great deal of flexibility in tailoring your potential returns and risks to your specific needs. One interesting strategy ...