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 than the call spread strike prices. Using one underlying stock with the same expiration date, the jade lizard strategy buys a call option at one […]
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Call options are in the money when the underlying stock that it is written on has a price higher than a the call option strike price. A call option can be used to call away a stock at the price of the strike with the profits being how much higher the stock was trading at
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Option traders who believe the price of an underlying asset will not change significantly in the near future can sell short combinations of options that have different directional biases and strike prices. A short strangle is an option play designed to bet on a small move in either direction for an underlying stock in a
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Traders who strongly believe the price of an underlying asset will change significantly in the near future but are unsure about the direction of the move can trade combinations of options that have different directional bias and strike prices. A long strangle is an option play designed to bet on a big move in either
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The delta of a stock is always 1.00 because delta is the variance of movement of a stock versus an option contract. The delta of an option is the magnitude of the move in the underlier that the option will capture currently based on the odds of the option expiring in-the-money. Delta quantifies the amount
An investment portfolio generally comprises diverse assets like stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, and bonds. Although it offers numerous advantages, investing and trading in options, an additional asset class, is far riskier than regular equity investments. However, specialized options trading strategies like the covered call strategy can minimize risk and limit losses. Selling covered call options,
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Most option traders are familiar with selling covered call options on stocks that they already own in their portfolio to generate cash flow, but what if an investor wanted to generate income from stocks they want to own in the future? Have you heard of selling puts for income? Selling a naked put option is
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In options trading, a vertical spread option play is created by buying and selling multiple options on the same underlying stock, with the same expiration date but with different strike prices. They can use either all call options or all put options. The vertical name comes from the trading sheets that were once used in
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A put credit spread attempts to make money through selling put option premium and having the stock price move higher or stay in the profitability zone by expiration. A put credit spread can be closed with a profit at any time until the expiration date of the puts in the option play. The bull put
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A cash secured put is created when a put option is sold to open at the same time as capital in an account is designated to buy the underlying stock at the strike price if the put expires in-the-money and is assigned to the option writer. A cash-secured put can be written as an at-the-money
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