Buying Puts on the Financial Select Sector SPDR

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Buying puts on the financial select sector SPDR multiplied recently as the government entered into consideration of new regulations. Puts to sell outnumbered calls to buy by roughly twenty to one as the SPDR fund price fell nearly two percent, to just above $14 a share. The huge difference has arisen as congress [...]

Writing Puts in Options Trading

Writing puts in options trading is the same as selling puts. The seller of a put option sells the right to sell a stock at a set price, the strike price, on or before a future date. In return the writer or seller of the put option receives the payment of a premium. Writing puts [...]

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 Put Options a Good Option for an Options Trader?

For many the best option for making money in the stock market is in trading options. Options traders both buy and sell options. They sell calls and puts. That is to say options traders sell rights and options to buy or sell. Which an options trader does is based upon his or her read of [...]