Learn the basics of options trading—what calls and puts are, how options work, and strategies to hedge or speculate—with practical examples for beginners.

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 ...

What Is a Stock Option? A stock option is a contract giving its holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a stock at a given price before a specific date. There are two main types of ...

POET Technologies made progress in Malaysian production facilities, with a $500K order for optical engines. Check out a bull ...

The dividend capture options strategy uses in the money call options to collect dividend payments without holding onto the ...

Options trading can be complex, and the trading jargon may confuse even experienced investors and traders. Two of the most common options contracts to understand are call and put options. Here’s what ...

With Sofi Technologies (SOFI) trading at $27.55, the November put option with a strike price of $26 was trading around $2.06.

What is a call option, anyway? A call option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to purchase an asset (in this case, Bitcoin) at a predetermined price before a specific date. If the ...

Put options are a type of option that increases in value as a stock falls. A put allows the owner to lock in a predetermined price to sell a specific stock, while put sellers agree to buy the stock at ...

Even by the high-growth standards of the world of actively managed exchange-traded funds, the boom in a new breed of option-linked, income-generating funds known as covered-call funds has been ...