An option contract is a form of financial asset known as a “derivative.” Purchasing an option contract it gives you the right to buy or sell some underlying asset on specific terms. You choose a price ...

One of the major benefits that many employers offer to their workers is the ability to buy company stock with some sort of tax advantage or built-in discount. There are several types of stock purchase ...

Stock options provide traders and investors with an easy way to control the risk-to-reward profile of a trade or investment. While some aspects of options trading can be complicated, the basics are ...

Put options are financial contracts that give the holder the right – but not the obligation – to sell an underlying stock or asset at a specified price (the strike price) within a certain time period.

Binary options are a new and popular type of investment vehicle among traders mainly because of the simplicity. Similarly to vanilla options, binary options allow a trader to trade on the future price ...

Traders know that there must be movement in the market for trades to happen and money to be made. Your style of trading determines how much movement you enjoy. For those that love volatility, the lack ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. My friend and colleague Brent Berarducci from Blacklion Capital Management has put together a video introduction ...

Have you ever heard about trading options, but didn’t know where to even begin? I’ll give you a quick introduction into option contract basics to get you started and lay out a basic trade. In later ...

Call options are financial contracts that give the holder the right – but not the obligation – to purchase an underlying stock or asset at a specified price at a specified time or up until that ...