Stock options are powerful investment vehicles investors use to generate profit and mitigate risk in their portfolios. Learn how they work and effective strategies.

Today, we take a look at options trading. As we know, options markets are very different to stocks – and their spreads are no exception. Black-Scholes was revolutionary in helping to price options.

Ellen Lindner / Investopedia A calendar spread is an options or futures strategy for simultaneously entering long and short positions on the same underlying asset but with different delivery dates.

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We take you through the details and examples below. Butterfly spreads are options strategies that involve using four options contracts with three different strike prices. They can be constructed ...

Stock options can refer to two related yet different things. The first, known as an exchange-traded option, is an agreement that can give you the option to buy or sell stock at a specific price by ...