Explore 10 essential options strategies every investor should know, from basic calls and puts to advanced spreads, risks, rewards, and real-world use cases explained.

A bear call spread is an options strategy where you sell a call option at one strike price and buy another at a higher strike price for the same stock and expiration. This approach caps both potential ...

GOOY implements a covered Call (or Call Spread) strategy on Alphabet (GOOGL shares). GOOY massively underperformed GOOGL due to its capped upside and relatively low premiums collected for sold Calls ...

YieldBoost ETFs are structured to help investors manage long-term income strategies within their portfolios. Global investment firm GraniteShares says its options-based put-spread strategy aims to ...

Financial advisors seeking efficient, risk-adjusted growth for clients turn to broad-based, low-cost U.S. large-cap index funds. While index funds provide broad market exposure, they do not take ...

Amid the turmoil of President Donald Trump’s Liberation Day, an underlying concept has soared to the forefront: the chaos represents a perfect opportunity to trade simple multi-leg options strategies, ...

Affirm Holdings, a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), is a financial technology company specializing in payment solutions that provide consumers with flexible, transparent installment loans. By partnering ...

Happy Thursday to Barchart readers everywhere. It’s a glorious day to be alive if you are a Toronto Blue Jays fan. Last night, my favorite baseball team punched their ticket to the ALCS, beating its ...

President Donald Trump's Liberation Day is living up to its name, though perhaps not in the way the administration envisioned. Thanks to last week's sweeping wave of tariffs, technical analysts have ...

Bitcoin's BTC $88,769.65 put-call ratio has jumped ahead of Friday's multi-billion-dollar options expiry on Deribit, but its traditional bearish interpretation may not tell the full story this time.