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Options Trading Strategy & Education

Options offer alternative strategies for investors to profit from trading underlying securities. Learn the basic options strategies such as calls, puts, covered calls, and protective puts.

Options & Derivatives Trading
  • Options Trading Strategy & Education
  • Advanced Options Trading Concepts

In The Money – ITM Definition and Example

In the money (ITM) means that an option has value or its strike price is favorable as compared to the prevailing market price of the underly...

  • Options Definition

  • Getting Acquainted With Options Trading

  • Understanding How Options Are Priced

  • Options vs. Futures: What’s the Difference?

  • Bull Call Spread Definition

  • Covered Call Definition

  • Credit Spread Definition
  • stock market

    Implied Volatility – IV Definition

  • Put Option Definition

  • Spread Definition

  • Stock Option Definition

  • Straddle Definition

  • Strike Price Definition

  • Volatility Definition

  • Why Open Interest and Trading Volume Matter to Options Traders

  • Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities – LEAPS Definition

  • 4 Ways to Trade Options

  • At The Money (ATM) Definition

  • Buy To Open Definition
  • Businesswoman using cell phone, looking down

    Top 9 Apps for Option Traders

  • American vs. European Options: What's the Difference?

  • Short Selling vs. Put Options: What's the Difference?

  • In the Money vs. Out of the Money: What's the Difference?

  • Put-Call Ratio Definition

  • How Is a Put Option Exercised?

  • Exercise Price Definition and Example

  • Leg Definition

  • Out Of The Money (OTM) Definition and Example

  • Protective Put Definition

  • Rights Offering (Issue)

  • Short Call Definition

  • Beginner's Guide To Call Buying

  • Using the "Greeks" to Understand Options
  • financial symbols coming from hand

    Introduction To Put Writing

  • American Option Definition

  • Put-Call Ratio Definition

  • Deep In The Money Definition

  • Interest Rate Options Definition

  • Triple Witching Definition

  • Options Trading Strategies: A Guide for Beginners

  • Options Contract Definition

  • Call

  • Call Option Definition

  • Time Value Definition

  • Interest Rate Call Option Definition

  • How Long Is an Options Expiration Cycle?

  • Synthetic Forward Contract Definition

  • Using Open Interest to Find Bull/Bear Signals

  • Exercise Definition

  • Is It Possible to Trade Forex Options?

  • SPAN Margin Definition

  • Zero Cost Collar Definition

  • Index Option Definition

  • Quadruple Witching Definition

  • Early Exercise Definition

  • Options Trading Strategies: Understanding Position Delta

  • Implied Volatility: Buy Low and Sell High

  • How to Sell Put Options to Benefit in Any Market

  • Top 11 Mistakes When Trading in Cheap Options

  • Eurex Definition

  • Put Calendar Definition

  • Delta Hedging Definition

  • Risk Reversal Definition
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