Buying Calls on Retailers

Buying calls on retailers is looking attractive as last month’s sales were the best in over half a year. As the holiday shopping season gets into full swing retailers are offering the usual discounts to get shoppers into their stores. It appears to be paying off as companies such as JCPenny who reported an increase [...]

What Are Calls and Puts?

What are calls and puts in options trading? Calls and puts are the names for the types of contracts used to buy and sell stock, commodity, and futures options. The answer to “What are calls and puts?” depends also, to a degree, upon the point of view of the trader. Calls and [...]

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 [...]

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