While many investors view options trading as a short-term strategy, it can also play an important role in a long-term ...

A debit spread is an options strategy that involves the purchase and sale of the same class of options with the same expiration date but different strike prices. Right now, this may sound confusing, ...

Delta is the easiest to understand of the option Greeks Delta is the second Greek letter used in options trading. Delta can easily be quantified as the change in option price relative to the ...

Learning how to trade options on stocks opens up a dimension of the market that most retail traders never fully access. Options give you the ability to profit from directional moves, hedge existing ...

A put option (or "put"), which gives the holder the right to sell, can be contrasted with a call option, which provides the holder with the right to buy the underlying security at a specified price, ...

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In just the first 19 trading days of the year, gold was up an astonishing +23%. Not to be outdone, silver, the ugly stepsister of the commodity market complex, was up +63% in that same relatively ...