With the Iran war set to enter week four on Saturday, reports that the U.S. is considering taking over Kharg Island, Iran’s primary oil-export hub, are sending S&P futures lower and oil prices higher.

Robinhood (HOOD) is exactly the kind of underlying where selling volatility can make more sense than trying to predict the next headline-driven price swing — especially after a sharp pullback and with ...

A synthetic short strategy allows investors to simulate risk/reward Savvy traders know that selling a stock short isn't without its downsides. Namely, you have to borrow shares from a broker. However, ...

After we enter a short strangle, we go into position management mode. When movements in share value remain moderate we don't have a directional exposure to the underlying. We just capture time value ...

Earnings season may seem like a scary time to trade stocks given the heightened chance of a volatile post-earnings move. Options can often provide speculative players the ability to invest in the ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Michael is a former senior editor of investing and trading products for ...

Identifying whether a stock will rise or fall and when that move will happen are not trivial questions. Seasoned professional investors, with reams of data and models, struggle to answer these ...

Investors’ daily waves of option sales are poised to slow a sustained stock rally back to record highs. Option-selling strategies have abounded in 2025, from exchange-traded fund overwrites to ...

Option trading can deliver tremendous profits, but the flip side of those gains is the potential for tremendous losses, since option trading is a zero-sum game. Those who are just getting started with ...