Covered Call Option

A covered call option is when the owner of stock writes an options contract obligating him or her to sell stock at the contract price, the strike price, at a future date, the expiration date, if the buyer so chooses. The buyer of a call option pays a premium to have the option but not [...]

Options Selling For Traders

Options for traders give an unlimited number of strategies with various levels of risk and return. Sorry to say, some retail traders get stuck in a long option left unaware of the potential flexibility offered by alternative option strategies. Among the popular strategies is options selling. What is it? Options selling is a way where [...]

Occasional Options Trading

There are two kinds of folks who trade options. There are full time options traders for whom options trading is their business. Then there are people who have other full time work for whom options trading occasionally makes sense. If you do not engage in options trading full time when might you sell a call [...]

When is Trading Call Options a Good Option?

Of all the means of making a profit in the stock markets trading options is sometimes a good option. In the American stock markets you can buy or sell stock options. You can buy or sell either puts or calls in options trading. Which you do depends upon where you think a stock is going [...]