Here are twelve powerful options trading strategies every option trader should understand how to execute. Links included in the option play names to articles explaining each strategy with graphics. Bull…

What are covered puts? A covered put is created when put options are sold that correlates with a short stock position already being held or opened as a sell/write at…

How to calculate an option price A Black-Scholes Calculator can be used to figure the price (fair market value) of a put or call option contract based on the Black-Scholes…

Instead of searching for an options play structure every time you come across a potential option trade you want to make you can now simply refer to the below guides…

Buy to open versus buy to close in options trading are very different processes that many stock traders don’t understand.  A buy to open order in options trading is when…

Option contracts are different than stock shares in the way they are created, traded, and closed. There are two different types of selling in options trading: sell to open vs…

A synthetic share of a stock is created by buying and selling stock options to simulate an options play that moves the same way that holding shares in the stock…

A diagonal spread options play is a modified calendar spread that is built with different strike prices. It is opened by entering into a long and short position in two…

This is a guest post from Gavin McMaster @OptiontradinIQ Searching for income has become a challenge. Bonds have been a traditional conservative income stream for decades. Yet, bond yields are…

The jade lizard is an option play that is created by opening a bearish vertical spread using call options and adding a put option sold at a strike price lower…