The stock market can feel like a roller coaster, with every day bringing new information for investors to consider. However, the market can feel tame and less volatile during some stretches. Many ...

An easy-to-follow overview of weekly options and how a beginning trader can get up to speed enough to trade weeklies ...

Many successful traders earn consistent premiums through strategic option sales. Whether through selling covered calls on their stocks or by writing cash-secured puts to acquire shares at a discount, ...

Option trading can deliver tremendous profits, but the flip side of those gains is the potential for tremendous losses, since ...

When the stock market becomes a roller coaster, the gains and losses both get larger. Traders have the potential to make profits during volatility, but getting it wrong can result in losses. Some ...

Options Builder is available within Firstrade’s web trading platform, with more innovative investing tools to come. “While ...

Options straddles and options strangles are two advanced options strategies that can be used to capitalize on changes in implied volatility (IV) and stock price volatility. Options straddles and ...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting kicks off today. With bank stocks under the microscope, the Fed's two-day policy event-- and subsequent comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell -- has ...

Options trading is the buying and selling of options contracts in the market, usually on a public exchange. Options are often the next level of security that new investors learn about following their ...

Traders typically think of options as a way to quickly multiply their money, and sure, they can do that. But options can also be used to generate income, and they can offer lower-risk ways to provide ...

GOOY implements a covered Call (or Call Spread) strategy on Alphabet (GOOGL shares). GOOY massively underperformed GOOGL due to its capped upside and relatively low premiums collected for sold Calls ...