Archive for the Future and Options Category
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The Long Gut – Option Trading
The Long Gut Spread is a volatile options trading strategy designed to profit when the underlying stock moves strongly upwards or downwards. The Long Gut Spread is a cousin of the Long Straddle and the Long Strangle with the only difference being tha
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Short Strangle Option Trading
The Short Strangle, is a very similar option trading strategy to a Short Straddle and is the complete reversal of a Long Strangle. Learning the Long Strangle first makes the Short Strangle easier to understand.The Short Strangle strategy is similar t
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Long Strangle Option Trading
The Long Strangle, or simply the Strangle, is a volatile option trading strategy that profits when the stock goes up or down strongly. The Strangle is a cousin of the Long Straddle and the Long Gut, making up a family of basic volatile options strate
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Short Straddle Option Trading Strategy
A short straddle is a non-directional options trading strategy that involves simultaneously selling a put and a call of the same underlying security, strike price and expiration date. The profit is limited to the premiums of the put and call, but it
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Long Straddle Option Trading Strategy
A long straddle involves going long, i.e., purchasing, both a call option and a put option on some stock, interest rate, index or other underlying. The two options are bought at the same strike price and expire at the same time. The owner of a long s
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Put Bear Spread – Option Trading
Bear spread in which a put with a higher striking price is purchased and one with a lower striking price is sold, both options having the same expiration date. This spread is sometimes more broadly categorized as a "vertical spread": a family of spr
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Call Bearspread – Option Trading
A bear call spread is a limited profit, limited risk options trading strategy that can be used when the options trader is moderately bearish on the underlying security. It is entered by buying call options of a certain strike price and selling the sa
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Put BackSpread Option- Explained
Put back spreads are great strategies when you are expecting big downward moves in already volatile stocks. The trade itself involves selling a put at a higher strike and buying a greater number of puts at a lower strike price. The put backspread is
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Long Put Option- Explained
A put option (usually just called a "put") is a financial contract between two parties, the writer (seller) and the buyer of the option. The buyer acquires a short position with the right, but not the obligation, to sell the underlying instrument at
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Short Call -Option Trading
You short a call when you write (sell) a call that you don't currently own. There are two basic types of short calls covered and uncovered (naked). The investor writing Call options should firmly believe that XYZ is not going up! XYZ doesn't have to
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Protective Put Option – Option Trading
A put option purchased for an underlying security that is already owned by the holder of the option. A protective put defends against a drop in the share price of the underlying security. A protective put strategy is usually employed when the option
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