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Index options offer access to a market with more liquidity. Index options offer cash settlements. Stock options offer inexpensive price options. Index options only offer a few choices that are ...

Learn how double no-touch options work, their risks, benefits, and examples to help you decide if these exotic trading ...

A put option is a financial contract that provides an investor the right (but not obligation) to sell a stock at a designated price prior to an expiration date. Learn more about put options and how ...

While many are familiar with buying stocks in hopes of profiting, the strategies for benefiting from price declines are often less understood. Two powerful tools in the bearish (pessimistic) ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He ...

An option is a contract that allows the buyer to buy or sell shares of stock at an agreed-upon price. Investors can get outsized returns by using options instead of simply owning stocks. Be forewarned ...

What will a stock be worth at a future date? Buying a call option bets on “more.” Selling a call bets on “less.” Here are 3 examples of call options trading. Many, or all, of the products featured on ...

With Apple (AAPL) climbing significantly today and trading near some key statistical levels, Schwab Network unveiled a “bullish example trade” involving call options on AAPL stock. Apple’s Technical ...

When you purchase an options contract, you're purchasing the right to buy or sell a stock (or other security) at a set price. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our ...

The Schwab Network recently discussed an “example” options trade involving Netflix (NFLX). According to the network, the trade is “neutral to bullish” and takes advantage of the stock’s expected high ...